Adriana Bisi Fabbri (1881–1918) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Adriana Fabbri was born in

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, where she met her future husband, journalist Giannetto Bisi, and she spent part of her youth in

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as a guest of

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’s mother. In Padua, and later in

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, where she moved with the family in 1905, she produced numerous painting studies and, a self-taught artist, she developed further by frequenting the studios of

Gaetano Previati Gaetano Previati (1852 – 1920) was an Italian Symbolist painter in the Divisionist style. Biography Previati was born in Ferrara. He relocated to Milan in 1876 and enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Giuseppe Bertini, Gi ...

and

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. In 1907, she moved to

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with her husband and the following year she made her debut with two drawings at the 2nd Quadriennale in

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. In 1911, she participated in ''Frigidarium'', the international humour exhibition organised at

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, where she won the bronze medal; in the same year she took part in the 1st Esposizione Libera organised in Milan by Boccioni and other

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intellectuals. In later years she participated in other group exhibitions, including those at the Ca’ Pesaro in

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, the Famiglia Artistica and the Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente in Milan. In 1914, she became a member of the Nuove Tendenze group and organised a solo exhibition of 51 works at the Milan store of the Enrico Finzi company. She was also sought after as a portraitist and, during the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, many of her political caricatures were published in '' Il Popolo d’Italia''; she also contributed to ''La Domenica Illustrata'' and created fashion plates for the couture house founded by Domenico Ventura. Adriana Fabbri died in

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(

Varese Varese ( , , or ; lmo, label= Varesino, Varés ; la, Baretium; archaic german: Väris) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 has reached 80,559. It is the c ...

) in 1918.

References

* Laura Casone
Adriana Bisi Fabbri
online catalogu
Artgate
by

Fondazione Cariplo Fondazione Cariplo is a charitable foundation in Milan, Italy. It was created in December 1991 when the Amato law, Law no. 218 of 30 July 1990, came into force. Under this law, saving banks were required to separate into a not-for-profit found ...

, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article). *Luigi Sansone (ed) ''Adriana Bisi Fabbri, 1881-1918'' Mazzotta, 2007,

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