Ernesto Galeffi, also known as ''Chiò'', (7 February 1917 - 1986) was an

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sculptor.

Biography

He was born in

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in Tuscany, where he lived most of his adult life. He was initially a pharmacist, but by the age of 37 years old he took up painting and sculpture. Initially influenced and trained under

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, by the 1950s and 1960s, his works became more individual. He is best known for his sculptures in bronze, wood, and stucco. A museum displaying many of his works, displayed in a building on Via Ammiraglio Burzagli #47, adjacent to his former house, has been opened in Montevarchi.Celebration in Montevarchi of the centenary of Galeffi's birth
announcement in website of the Comune of Montevarchi.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Galeffi Ernesto 1917 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists People from Montevarchi