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 to paint and study 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 Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts of Genoa. He maintains close ties with the Milanese artistic world and, in 1913, one of his paintings, presented at the celebratory exhibition of the fortieth anniversary of the Milanese Artistic Family, was purchased by the King of Italy.
Baldassini was also an excellent etcher, and this technique gave him some 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.
Again with this technique he produced coastal and town views.
In 1915 he became an honorary member of the Brera Academy.
In 1922 he participated in the Florentine Spring Exhibition with the works La chiesetta di San Biagio nel Friuli and La vita nel porto di Genova.
From about 1930 he painted again in Genoa, then began a productive and long period of exhibitions in South America where, moreover, much of his artistic production is dispersed.
Guglielmo Baldassini can be considered a great marine painter in the nineteenth-century tradition, whose work appears updated by the very effective use of a thick brushstroke 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 a frame.