The Gruppo Labronico is an Italian artistic association founded in
Livorno
Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 152,916 residents as of 2025. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn ...
in 1920.
History
The Labronico group of artists is rooted in the heyday of the
Caffè Bardi
The former Caffè Bardi was a notable coffee house and meeting place in the 19th through mid-20th century for artists and intellectuals in Livorno, a region of Tuscany, Italy. The coffee-house no longer exists and stood at the corner of via Cairoli ...
.
After the Caffè closed and the death of
Mario Puccini
Mario Puccini (28 June 1869, Livorno – 18 June 1920, Florence) was an Italian Post-Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and village scenes. He was sometimes referred to as "The Italian Van Gogh". , the Gruppo Labronico was founded in
Gino Romiti's studio on July 15, 1920.
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Maestri Fondatori, Foundation website based on the source of Gastone Razzaguta, Virtù degli artisti labronici, Livorno, Editrice Nuova Fortezza, 1985. Among the other founders of the Gruppo Labronico were:
Gino Romiti,
Adriano Baracchini-Caputi, Tito Cavagnaro, Gino Cipriani,
Goffredo Cognetti, Beppe Guzzi, Giovanni March,
Corrado Michelozzi,
Renato Natali, Gastone Razzaguta, Renuccio Renucci,
Carlo Romanelli
Carlo Alfred Romanelli (1872–1947) was an Italian sculptor, born in Florence, Italy August 24, 1872 and died August 9, 1947. He came to the United States in 1902, settling in Los Angeles, California.Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in ...
,
Ferruccio Rontini
Ferrucio Rontini (1893 – 1964) was an Italian painter, active in Livorno.
Biography
He was born in Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 36 ...
, Cesare Tarrini, Alberto Zampieri and Giovanni Zannacchini.
Gino Romiti was president of the group from 1946 until its closing.
joined the group in 1947 and became its President in 1967.
In May 2014, the Gruppo Labronico donated its historical archives (1920-1932) to the city of Livorno. The inventory of the archives is available at the
Museo Civico "Giovanni Fattori". In 2020, the group celebrated one hundred years of existence.
Bibliography
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Filmography
* ''Gruppo Labronico'' (2010), documentary by Luca Dal Canto
See also
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Caffè Bardi
The former Caffè Bardi was a notable coffee house and meeting place in the 19th through mid-20th century for artists and intellectuals in Livorno, a region of Tuscany, Italy. The coffee-house no longer exists and stood at the corner of via Cairoli ...
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Macchiaioli
The Macchiaioli () were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They strayed from antiquated conventions taught by the Italian art academies, and did much of their painting outdoors in order ...
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Italian modern and contemporary art
References
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Italian art movements
Modern art
Landscape art by school
Painters from Tuscany
Italian artist groups and collectives