Ermenegildo Agazzi (24 July 1866 – 25 October 1945) was an Italian painter, active in painting

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, portraits, and landscapes. He began his career painting in a style similar to

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painters.

Biography

He was born in

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, and active mainly in

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. He was the brother of

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, also a painter. Agazzi studied at the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo under

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; then moved to Milan, and exhibited at the

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first in 1886. He won many awards and continued to exhibit until the late 1930s. He exhibited at Paris in 1900 (where he won a gold medal), at Milan in 1901, at Brussels in 1910; and at Milan in 1915 (where he won the Baragiola prize) and 1928 (when he won the Fornara prize). He participated in many Biennale, and in 1930 had a personal exhibition in Milan. In 1938, he was awarded a gold medal by the Ministry of National Education. At the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Milan, there are a number of his works, including ''Ponte Vico a

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'' (1932); ''Landscape'' (1916); ''Portrait of Man'' (1909); ''Valleys of Bergamo'' (1928); ''Portrait of a Child'' (1932); and ''Il violino'' (1938).Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Milan
He had fled Milan for Bergamo to avoid aerial bombardments, when he met accidental death.

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