Bruno Cassinari

Bruno Cassinari studied at Brera Academy. The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Italy. Work by Bruno Cassinari is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, Statens Museum for Kunst, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Buffalo AKG Art Museum and National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina.

• Name — Bruno Cassinari • Born — 29 October 1912 • Birthplace — Piacenza, Italy • Died — 26 March 1992 • Place of death — Milan, Italy • Known for — Sculpture, painting • Movement — Cubism • Education — Brera Academy

Cassinari was born in Piacenza, a city in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region. He attended the local art school but eventually decided to move to Milan, where he studied painting at the Brera Academy under Aldo Carpi. In 1946, he helped find the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, an association aiming to restore optimism to post-war Italian art. Other members were Renato Birolli, Renato Guttuso, Ennio Morlotti, Leoncillo Leonardi, and Alberto Viani. In 1949, Cassinari was invited by Pablo Picasso to exhibit his work at the Antibes Museum of Art. In 1952, he won the Grand Prize for Painting at the 26th Venice Biennale with his Cubist-inspired paintings, The Lemon and Still Life in Pink. In the 1960s, Cassinari briefly relocated to Venice. In 1986, he was recognised for his contributions to Italian painting with a large-scale retrospective of his work in Milan. Cassinari died in Milan on 26 March 1992, about one year after the death of his wife, Enrica. • Illustration — Cassinari's studio, Venice, 1963