Luigi Mantovani (1880-1957) - vecchia milano

Luigi Mantovani (Milan 1880-1957) old Milan
frame size with frame 50x40 cm. The frame is not part of the sale but is complimentary.

Luigi Mantovani (Milan, May 29, 1880 – Milan, September 25, 1957) was an Italian painter.

Biography
Encouraged by his father Giuseppe — who was an engraver — to pursue painting, Luigi Mantovani enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1896 and studied with Giuseppe Mentessi, Vespasiano Bignami, and Cesare Tallone. He made his debut at the IV Brera Triennale Exhibition in 1900, with two landscape studies, and began an exhibiting career that saw him regularly participate in exhibitions organized by the Milanese Artistic Family (Famiglia Artistica Milanese) and by the Society for Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition. He established himself on the art scene in 1906 with participation in the International Exposition of Milan. From the 1920s onward, he stood out in Milan’s cultural salons: he was among the organizers of the Association of Lombard Watercolorists and of the “Famiglia meneghina,” and he was awarded a gold medal on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to Lombard landscape in 1926.

His production of cityscapes and landscapes is distinguished by a broken brushwork and the adoption of a light, transparent chromatic palette, which would become his hallmark. In the second half of the forties, coinciding with the revival of his exhibition activity after the long interruption caused by the Second World War — during which Mantovani continued to paint in the attic of his Milanese home — thanks to his patron Guido Snider, owner of a business selling espresso machines — he resumed his repertoire of Milanese and Venetian views, which had now become repetitive and conventional, but with a more fluid and relaxed painting technique.