Augusto Colombo
Augusto Colombo (1902 in Milan – 1969) was an Italian painter. After attending the school of arts and crafts run by the Società Umanitaria in Milan, Colombo enrolled at the Brera Academy for the evening classes taught by Giuseppe Palanti and then Ambrogio Alciati’s course of nude studies. He was awarded the Cesare Sarfatti Prize in 1924, which enabled him to spend the next two years in Rome, Florence and Paris.
Augusto Colombo
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- 1902 · Milan.
- Died
- 1969 · Milan.
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- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
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- Brera Academy
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- Italian
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Having returned to Milan, he took part in the city’s exhibitions with portraits and large-scale compositions on social and religious subjects. The art school he opened in his studio in 1933 had over 800 pupils during its 36 years of operation. A militant antifascist, he depicted the horrors of war in a series of works during World War II and subsequently played a leading role in Milan’s cultural life, founding the magazine Valori and promoting the activities of the Famiglia Meneghina organisation. The large-scale compositions on religious subjects were combined in later years with numerous cycles of decorative works.
• Illustration — La siesta, 1924 • Illustration — Ritratto del conte Stefano Jacini, 1953
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Augusto Colombo lived from 26 August 1902 to 17 January 1969 and was an artist. The birth of Augusto Colombo is recorded on 26 August 1902, and the death on 17 January 1969.
Augusto Colombo, Maria Colombo Sassi e i figli Cesare, Fausto e Arturo
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- 1.Augusto Colombo in A.M. Comanducci, Dizionario illustrato dei pittori, disegnatori e incisori italiani moderni e contemporanei, Patuzzi ed., Milano, 1972, vol. II, pp.781-784.
- 2.Giorgio Nicodemi, Augusto Colombo, Presentazione per la mostra alla Società per le belle arti ed esposizione permanente, Milano, 1939.
- 3.La “Via Crucis” di Augusto Colombo, con testo di G. Nicodemi, Bestetti & Tumminelli, Milano, 1946. Cfr. E. Lavarino, L'inspiration évangélique d'Augusto Colombo, in “La Tribune de Genève” del 7 aprile 1947.
- 4.Augusto Colombo, con testo di V. Beonio-Brocchieri, Meschina, Milano, 1956, e Augusto Colombo, Monografia con saggi critici di C. Angelici, V. Beonio-Brocchieri, L. Borgese, A. Carpi, R. Degrada, ecc. Hoepli, Milano, 1970
- 5.Mario De Micheli, I fogli della guerra, in Augusto Colombo, cit., pp. 90-108
- 6.La Scuola d'Arte di Augusto Colombo, con testi di V. Beonio-Brocchieri, L, Medici, A. Palatini, Milano, 1957.
- 7.Mario Lepore, Augusto Colombo: cinquant'anni di pittura e insegnamento, in “Corriere d'Informazione” del 23 settembre 1970, e Dino Buzzati, Una nobile figura di artigiano artista, in “Corriere della Sera” del 27 settembre 1970.
- 8.Rossana Bossaglia, La guerra mondiale. Valori, sentimenti e racconti epici, in “Corriere della Sera” del 20 maggio 1998, e Raffaele De Grada, Nei disegni, commoventi diari di guerra, in “Corriere della Sera” del 30 gennaio 2004.
- 9.Nel segno dell'uomo. Opere di Augusto Colombo, a c. Luca Saltini, con saggi di C. Segre e A. Ranzi, Edizioni Le Ricerche, Losone, 2008
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