"VIEWS OF HISTORICAL VILLAGES" - GIUSEPPE CASELLI (1893 - 1976)

Pair of oil paintings on thick cardboard depicting historical villages. All signed by the Spezia master Giuseppe Caselli. 1950s. The cardboard size is 25 x 30. Born in 1893 in Villarotta di Luzzara (Reggio Emilia), he trained at the Free School of the Nude at the Academy of Florence. Returning to La Spezia, where he has resided since childhood, he was a student of Del Santo and Discovolo. He came into contact with the artistic environment gravitating around the new magazine L'Eroica of the Spezia writer Ettore Cozzani and dedicated himself to woodcut engraving. In 1913 he met Lorenzo Viani. During the First World War he was taken prisoner and interned in the Mauthausen prison camp in Austria. His painting, initially influenced by the early divisionist experiences of the early 20th century, evolved into a personal expressionism, close to the Austrian innovative movements, but also to Viani's poetics. Many of his works are inspired by memories of captivity. With aeropainting works, in 1933 he exhibited at the Gulf Prize organized by F.T. Marinetti and will return to participate in many of the subsequent editions. Very attached to La Spezia, he paints the many aspects of the city, the province and in particular the nearby Cinque Terre. The Centro Allende of La Spezia dedicated a posthumous anthology exhibition to him in 1981. A regular certificate of authenticity with photo will be issued. We guarantee a response to your emails within 24 hours. REGISTERED IN THE ROLE OF EXPERTS AND EXPERTS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LA SPEZIA AT NUMBER SP. 579