Umberto Moggioli (1886-1919) - Nell'orto

Umberto Moggioli (Trento, 1886 – Rome, 26 January 1919) In the garden size with frame 79 x 67 cm
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Biography
Born in Trento in 1886, to Costante, a baker by trade, and Elena Marchi. In 1904 he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia thanks to the donation of patron Antonio Tambosi. Eugenio Prati and Bartolomeo Bezzi had appreciated a small en plein air landscape painting by Moggioli, sixteen, at the Baroness Giulia Turco Lazzari's house and had suggested to Tambosi to finance his studies. During his studies in Venice the architectural, painterly, and landscape sensibilities are strong, combined with the study of past painters such as Titian, Tintoretto, and Tiepolo. Diploma in 1907, he left in 1908 for his first Roman sojourn to attend the French evening school of nude drawing. Despite this, this period will lead Moggioli to dedicate himself mainly to landscape painting, close to his longing for solitude and meditation. In 1909 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale and in Burano he collaborated with Pieretto Bianco in decorating fourteen panels for the Central Pavilion of the Castello Gardens (1909-1910). Together with his wife he moved in 1911 to a house in Burano, where he met the critic Barbantini, director of Ca' Pesaro, and the painters Gino Rossi, Tullio Garbari, Luigi Scopinich, Pio Semeghini, and Felice Casorati.


Umberto Moggioli, The Green Bridge, 1910, MART, Trento
In this climate Moggioli produced some of his masterworks, such as Il ponte verde (1910), Cipresso Gemello (1912) and Primavera a Mazzorbo (1913), which portray solitary and silent places, close to his contemplative attitude. After the first solo show at Ca' Pesaro (1912) he also exhibited in the capital alongside Vettore Zanetti-Zilla at the Prima Secessione romana (1913 and 1914). The Venetian period ends in 1915 when Moggioli, bound by fraternal friendship to Cesare Battisti, volunteers and joins the Trentino Legion of Verona. As a cartographer he is sent to the Tridentine front in Vallagarina, where he works on surveys, plans and models until 1916, the year in which he is discharged following a severe illness.

The hills of Garda and Cavaion Veronese are portrayed by Moggioli, recuperating from illness, as he resumes painting, influenced by the primitivism of Tullio Garbari and by the lines and colors of Gino Rossi. Toward the end of 1916 he moved to Rome with his wife Anna, where he settled in one of the studios at Villa Strohl-Fern and met Renato Brozzi and the musician Bruno Barilli. During this period Moggioli worked with Antonio Rizzi on the cartoons for the mosaics of the lunettes of the monument to Vittorio Emanuele II (1916-1917).

In contact with the Roman milieu, his artistic activity becomes more intense: the colors used tend to brighten and become more luminous, and the preferred subjects are figures rendered with solid volume, interior scenes, and landscapes with limited horizons. Moggioli dies at thirty-two, struck by the Spanish flu, on January 26, 1919 in Rome. In May–June of the same year he is commemorated with four works at the Esposizione Cispadana di Belle Arti in Venice and at Ca’ Pesaro with a solo show of twelve works. A wide retrospective is dedicated to him at the Venice Biennale of 1920.