Artist: Renato Birolli (1905 - 1959)
Nationality: Italian
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Renato Birolli began painting in an Expressionist manner, influenced by Van Gogh and Ensor. After visiting Paris in 1936, he became interested in the work of the Fauves. In 1938, Birolli co-founded the Fascist Corrente organization and had articles published in multiple journals. These political activities led to his harassment and eventually imprisonment. He began working with abstraction after World War II and joined the Art Informel movement. In 1947, Birolli joined the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti. After 1948, his work was shown multiple times at the Venice Biennale.

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Alberto Sughi was born in Cesena in 1928. A self-taught painter, by the end of his formative years he had become one of the greatest Italian artists of his generation. He started painting in the early 1950s, choosing realism in the debate between ...

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Renato Birolli (1779 - 1851) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Renato Birolli. Catalogo della mostra (Milano-Roma, 1989; Verona, 1990) -
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