Ennio Morlotti

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Ennio Morlotti (21 September 1910 - 15 December 1992) was an Italian painter of the Corrente de Vita movement started in Milan as a counterpoint to nationalistic Futurism and the Novecento Italiano movements. His figures show an affinity to the geometry of Cezanne and Matisse, but later works depict thickets of abstraction.

Biography

He was born in Lecco in Lombardy, and his early life was difficult and impoverished. He moved and began studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence from 1936 to 1937. He would mainly paint landscapes. He then traveled to Paris for a year, and returned in 1939 to Milan, where he briefly studied at the Brera Academy.

After the war, he returned to Paris in 1947 and participated in the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti. He lived mostly in Milan, traveling to Brianza and Liguria. He died in Milan.[1]

References

  1. ^ Biografia di Ennio Morlotti by Gianfranco Bruno.