Carlo Martini (1908–1958) was an Italian painter and academician.

Biography

He studied in Brera Academy of

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under the tutelage of

Aldo Carpi Aldo Carpi (6 October 1886 – 27 March 1973) was an Italian artist, painter and writer, author of a collection of memoirs concerning his imprisonment in the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Biography Born in Milan, early in his you ...

. He moved to

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in 1938. He lived in

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and

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. He came back in Italy in 1940 due to the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. He fought in

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and he got imprisoned in

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in 1943, bound to a German concentration camp, but he managed to escape and run away from Italy to

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as a

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. At the end of the conflict he returned to Milan, where he became assistant professor of Aldo Carpi at Brera Academy. He died in 1958, at the age of fifty.A. Sala, ''Carlo Martini'', Leonardo - De Luca editori, 1991.A. M. Comanducci, ''Dizionario illustrato dei pittori, disegnatori e incisori italiani moderni e contemporanei'', volume III, Patuzzi, 1972.

Artistic style

During his academic growth, Martini's style was influenced by

Novecento Italiano Novecento Italiano () was an Italian artistic movement founded in Milan in 1922 to create an art based on the rhetoric of the fascism of Benito Mussolini, Mussolini. History Novecento Italiano was founded by Anselmo Bucci (1887–1955), Leonardo ...

, and then by Chiarismo Lombardo movement. The English period (1938-1940) gave him the possibility to assimilate the impressionistic lesson and the art of painters as William Turner and

John Constable John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romanticism, Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedha ...

. Several paintings of that period represent the English and Scottish countryside. The artistic maturity brought new pictorial trials, where children and Italian landscapes carved out a leading role in his canvases, showing the artist's love and attachment for his daily inner life.E. Muletti,
Carlo Martini (1908-1958). La memoria del paesaggio cremasco
'', 2008.

Exhibits

Martini participated in the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

in 1934, 1936, 1948 and 1950. Among the posthumous exhibits, the most notable took place in Crema in 1991.

Paintings in museums and public collections

Artgate Fondazione Cariplo - Martini Carlo, La città di Crema

Several Martini's paintings are kept in Milan, in the Modern Art Gallery,L. Caramel - C. Pirovano, ''Galleria d'arte moderna. Opere del Novecento'', Electa, 1974. in the Brera Academy collection, in the

Art collections of Fondazione Cariplo The art collections of Fondazione Cariplo are a gallery of artworks with a significant historical and artistic value owned by Fondazione Cariplo in Italy. It consists of 767 paintings, 116 sculptures, 51 objects and furnishings dating from the f ...

,www.edixxon.com
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/ref> in the Ospedale Maggiore portraits collectionG. C. Bascapè - E. Spinelli, ''Le raccolte d'arte dell'Ospedale Maggiore di Milano dal XV al XX secolo'', Silvana editoriale, 1956. and in the

Provincia di Milano The Province of Milan ( it, Provincia di Milano) was a province in the Lombardy region, Italy. Its capital was the city of Milan. The area of the former province is highly urbanized, with more than 2,000 inhabitants/km2, the third highest populat ...

art collections.''Il Novecento a Palazzo Isimbardi'', Fabbri Editori, 1988. In Crema, some canvas are exhibited in the Civic Museum.www.lombardiabeniculturali.it
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References

Bibliography

*G. C. Bascapè - E. Spinelli, ''Le raccolte d'arte dell'Ospedale Maggiore di Milano dal XV al XX secolo'', Silvana editoriale, 1956. *A. M. Comanducci, ''Dizionario illustrato dei pittori, disegnatori e incisori italiani moderni e contemporanei'', volume III, Patuzzi, 1972. *L. Caramel - C. Pirovano, ''Galleria d'arte moderna. Opere del Novecento'', Electa, 1974. *A. Sala, ''Carlo Martini'', Leonardo - De Luca editori, 1991. *''Il Novecento a Palazzo Isimbardi'', Fabbri Editori, 1988. *E. Muletti,
Carlo Martini (1908-1958). La memoria del paesaggio cremasco
', 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Martini, Carlo 1908 births 1958 deaths Brera Academy alumni 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian male artists