Umberto Pettinicchio

Umberto Pettinicchio

Umberto Pettinicchio (born 1943) is an Italian painter and sculptor.[1]

Biography

He was born in Torremaggiore[2]: 1451  and moved to Milan, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and had his first show in 1969.[3]: 103 

His early paintings were in the expressionist style but became increasingly more abstract.[4] His 1981 painting The Death of the Bull is held in the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria.[5]

References

  1. ^ Carella, Elvira (31 January 2010). "Le colline della Brianza e i suoi stupendi campanili sono la mia ispirazione". Il Giorno. Retrieved 8 March 2017 (in Italian).
  2. ^ Giorgio Di Genova (2007). Storia dell'arte italiana del '900, volume VI, part 1 (in Italian). Bologna: Edizioni Bora. ISBN 9788888600390.
  3. ^ [s.n.] (1983). Los Cuadernos del norte, volume 4, issues 17-22 (in Spanish). Oviedo, España: Caja de Ahorros de Asturias.
  4. ^ Scantamburlo, Elisabetta (curator). Catalog: Milano Art Design, 21 May–30 October 2015, p. 24
  5. ^ Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. Umberto Pettinicchio.
Wikiquote has quotations related to Umberto Pettinicchio.


Stub icon

This Italian artist–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.