Guglielmo Baldassini (1885-1952) - Paesaggio

Guglielmo Baldassini, landscape painter, born in Genoa in 1885, attended for three years the Brera Academy in Milan.

He soon began painting and studying on his own, dedicating himself, in particular, to landscape and seascape.

He began to exhibit in various national and international exhibitions, including numerous shows at the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti di Genova. He maintained close ties with the Milanese artistic world and, in 1913, a painting of his, presented at the celebratory exhibition for the fortieth anniversary of the Famiglia Artistica Milanese, was purchased by the King of Italy.

Baldassini was also an excellent etcher, and this technique gave him a certain notoriety.

From 1916 he began to exhibit in various European capitals: London, Paris, etc. Subsequently he went to Tokyo where some of his etchings were purchased for the Imperial Museum.

Also with this technique he produced harbor and town views.

In 1915 he became an honorary member of the Brera Academy.

In 1922 he participated in the Esposizione Primaverile Fiorentina with the works La chiesetta di San Biagio nel Friuli and La vita nel porto di Genova.

From around 1930 he painted again in Genoa, then began a fruitful and long period of exhibitions in South America where, moreover, much of his artistic production is dispersed.

Guglielmo Baldassini can be regarded as a great marine painter in the wake of the nineteenth-century tradition, whose work appears updated by the very effective use of a tactile brushwork and by a chromatic play of lights and transparencies that make some of his sea-themed works unique.

His works are preserved in important public collections in Italy and abroad, as well as in prestigious private collections. It measures 44 cm by 34 cm and is an oil on cardboard, 58 by 47 with frame.