Carlo Servolini (5 April 1876 – 12 September 1948) was an Italian artist from Livorno, in Tuscany. He worked in oils, water-colour, etching and lithography. He was the father of the wood engraver Luigi Servolini [it].[1]
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Carlo Servolini | |
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Born | 5 April 1876 Livorno, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 12 September 1948 Collesalvetti, Italian Republic |
Nationality | Italian |
Education | Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze |
Servolini was born in Livorno on 5 April 1876.[2] He studied in Florence at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and at the Scuola Professionale di Arti Decorative e Industriali (now the Liceo Artistico di Porta Romana [it]), where he qualified as a teacher of drawing.[3]: 146 He received help and advice from Guglielmo Micheli, a pupil of Giovanni Fattori, but did not become an imitator of the Macchiaiolo style.[2]
He exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia in 1936, 1940 and 1942; his work was shown in Argentina, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.[1]
Servolini died at Collesalvetti, in the province of Livorno, on 12 September 1948.[2] In 2006, the comune of Collesalvetti established the Pinacoteca Comunale Carlo Servolini, a public gallery which houses works by Servolini and his Tuscan contemporaries, and also stages temporary exhibitions.[4][5]
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