Bruno Cassinari (1912-1992)

Professions: Painter; Illustrator; Sculptor

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  Bruno Cassinari (1912-1992)

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  Bruno Cassinari (1912-1992)

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  Bruno Cassinari (1912-1992)

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  Bruno Cassinari (1912-1992)

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Bruno Cassinari Biography

(b Piacenza, 29 Oct 1912; d Milan, 27 March 1992). Italian painter. He trained initially at the Gazzola school of art in Piacenza and from the age of 17 took evening classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He made his début as a painter in 1940 with a one-man show in the Galleria di Corrente. At that time the Corrente was the artistic circle most concerned with introducing Italian culture to the rest of Europe. During World War II Cassinari moved first to Brianza, then to Venice and finally to Milan where he settled in 1945. In 1946 he was one of the signatories of the manifesto of the Nuova Secessione Artistica Italiana, which became known as the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti in 1947; in this year Cassinari resigned from the group. The work of van Gogh and then Modigliani exercised a profound and liberating influence on Cassinari. However, after meeting Picasso in 1949 in Antibes, he abandoned the tonal qualities in the spirit of the traditional Lombard painters in favour of a prismatic and strident coloration (e.g. Still-life in Pink , 1952; Rome, G.N.A. Mod.). His friendship with Picasso led to a one-man show in 1950 at the Musée Picasso in Antibes. Cassinari remained in Antibes until 1953. In 1950 he was awarded the Gran Premio for painting at the Venice Biennale, and in the following year he was invited to exhibit in a one-man show at the São Paulo Biennale. Cassinari also worked in other media and techniques, including sculpture, illustration, printmaking and design, and as a designer of cartoons for tapestries.

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