Luigi Mantovani (1880-1957) - Milano

Luigi Mantovani (Milan 1880-1957) Naviglio in Milan
dimensions with frame cm 34x40. the frame is not part of the sale but is 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 Fourth Brera Triennale Exhibition in 1900 with two landscape studies and began an exhibition activity that saw him regularly present at the exhibitions organized by the Milanese Artistic Family and by the Society for the Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition, establishing himself on the art scene in 1906 with his participation in the International Exhibition of Milan. From the twenties onward he stood out in Milanese cultural circles: he was among the organizers of the Association of Lombard Watercolourists and of the “Famiglia meneghina” 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 distinguished by a broken brushstroke and by the adoption of a bright and transparent color palette, which would become his characteristic hallmark.
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 that makes espresso coffee machines - he resumes his repertoire of Milanese and Venetian views, which had become repetitive and conventional, but with a more fluid and loose painting technique.