Luigi Mantovani (1880-1957) - Navigli a milano

Luigi Mantovani (Milan 1880-1957) Naviglio in Milan
dimensions with frame 45x40 cm. the frame is not part of the sale but is offered as a gift

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 cultivate 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 Triennial Exhibition in 1900, with two landscape studies, and began an exhibition career that saw him consistently present at the exhibitions organized by the Milan Artistic Family (Famiglia Artistica Milanese) and by the Society for the Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition. He established himself on the artistic scene in 1906 with participation in the International Exhibition of Milan. From the 1920s he stood out in Milan's cultural cenacles: he was among the organizers of the Lombard Watercolorists Association and of the “Milanese Family” and he was awarded a gold medal on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the Lombard landscape, in 1926.

His production of city views and landscapes is characterized by a broken brushstroke and by the adoption of a clear and translucent color palette, which would become his trademark. In the second half of the forties, coinciding with the resumption of exhibition activity after the long interruption caused by the Second World War, during which Luigi Mantovani continued to paint in the attic of his Milanese home – thanks to his patron Guido Snider, owner of a company of espresso coffee machines – he resumed his repertoire of Milanese and Venetian views, which had become repetitive and conventional, but with a more fluid and unconstrained painting technique.