The Galleria d'arte moderna Aroldo Bonzagni is an Italian museum, located in Cento. It was founded in 1959 in memory of the local painter Aroldo Bonzagni, who died in 1918 at only thirty years of age.

Collection

The museum collection is focused on a group of paintings by Bonzagni and a selection of works of Italian figurative painters of the twentieth century. Among the many artists represented are

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 ...

Achille Funi Achille Funi (26 February 1890 – 26 July 1972) was an Italian painter who painted in a neoclassical style. Biography Funi was born in Ferrara. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1910 and joined the Nuove Tendenze movemen ...

Raffaele De Grada Raffaele De Grada (Milan, 1885–1957) was an Italian painter. Biography Initially trained by his father, a decorator, in Argentina and then from 1899 in Zurich, De Grada attended the academies of Dresden and Karlsruhe over the period 1902–05 ...

Filippo De Pisis Filippo De Pisis (11 May 1896 – 2 April 1956) was an Italian painter and poet. Biography He was born Luigi Filippo Tibertelli in Ferrara. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Bologna beginning in 1914.Gale, Matthew and ...

Lucio Fontana Lucio Fontana (; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Early life Born in Rosario, to Italian immigrant parents, he was t ...

, Umberto Lilloni,

Giò Pomodoro Giò Pomodoro (; 17 November 1930 – 21 December 2002) was an Italian sculptor, printmaker, and stage designer. His brother is the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. In 1954 he moved to Milan, where he associated with leading avant-garde artists and st ...

Aligi Sassu Aligi Sassu (17 July 1912 – 17 July 2000) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Biography Aligi Sassu was born in Milan, Lombardy. He was the son of Lina Pedretti (from Parma, Emilia) and Antonio Sassu (from Sassari, Sardinia). His father ...

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, Mario Sironi, Adriano Spilimbergo,

Guido Tallone Guido Tallone (11 May 1894 – 30 September 1967) was an Italian painter. Biography Tallone was born in Bergamo, Italy. Son of the painter Cesare Tallone, he took his father's courses at the Brera Academy. He fought in World War I and, after ...

, Renato Vernizzi, and Adolfo Wildt.

References

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