Vespasiano Bignami

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Vespasiano Bignami , called Vespa, (born October 18, 1841 in Cremona , Austrian Empire ; died February 28, 1929 in Milan ) was an Italian painter, art critic and editor.

Life

Vespasiano Bignami grew up in Cremona. His brother Osvaldo Bignami (1856–1936) also became a painter. He studied at the Accademia Carrara di Bergamo with Enrico Scuri , among his fellow students were Giuseppe Amisani and Giovanni Barrella . Bignami initially got by in Bergamo as a painter with various commissioned works and continued his work in Milan from 1861 , where he joined the Scapigliatura group. He drew, also under a pseudonym, for the satirical magazines L'Uomo di pietra , Mefistofele and Spirito folletto . He founded the artist community and art magazine “La famiglia artistica”, which took an anti-academic stance. He was committed to socialist ideas, was a member of the local council and wrote for social democratic newspapers. He also wrote Lombard dialect poems .

Poster for Manon Lescaut (no year)

In 1869 he won a prize donated by Heinrich Mylius in an exhibition at the Brera with the picture Lezione di Botanica . He co-authored the artist biographies of Francesco Barzaghi and Cesare Tallone and wrote studies on Eleuterio Pagliano and Mosè Bianchi . Bignami taught from 1893 to 1921 as a professor for "disegno e figura" at the Accademia di Brera .

His estate is administered by the Fondo Bignami , which is dedicated to promoting the arts.

Fonts (selection)

  • La Portinara . Poetry
  • Ferravilla e compagni: studi critici e biografici di Cletto Arrighi, Ferdinando Fontana e Jarro . Milan: Aliprandi, 1890
  • (Ed.): La Pittura Lombardia del sec. 19º . Milan lano: Tip. Capriole e Massimino, 1900
  • Il pittore Mosè Bianchi di Monza . Rome: Direzione della Nuova Antologia, 1904
  • with Ciro Caversazzi: Cesare Tallone . Bergamo: Collezione di monografie illustrate, 1921

literature

  • S. Zatti: Bignami, Vespasiano . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 618.
  • Anna Mangiarotti (Ed.): Famiglia artistica milanese: 130 anniversario . Milan, 2004
  • Monica Amari (ed.): Il Riso esiste: dunque c'é: la Famiglia artistica, arte e ironia nella Milano di fine Ottocento . Milan: Expo Ct, 1989
  • Anna Finocchi: Il fondo Bignami nella Biblioteca d'Arte di Milano . Milan: Comune di Milano, Biblioteca d'Arte, 2011 ISBN 978-88-903953-5-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DT: Bignami, Osvaldo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 618.
  2. ↑ Vespasiano Bignami rivive alla Biblioteca d'Arte del Castello in Famiglia Artistica Milanese. l'associazione per l'arte e gli artisti milanesi, dal 1873, January 20, 2010
  3. ↑ Image and image description La lezione di botanica , Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi , at lombardia beni culturali
personal data
SURNAME Bignami, Vespasiano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, art critic and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Cremona
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1929
Place of death Milan