Guido Tallone (11 May 1894 – 30 September 1967) was an Italian painter.
Biography
Tallone was born in
Bergamo
Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...
, 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 returning to
Milan, continued to study painting, focusing on portraits and landscapes. The latter were frequently set in the environs of Alpignano where he and his family often used to stay in the house he inherited from his mother Eleonora Tango. He exhibited his works for the first time in the 1923 Esposizione Annuale della Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente in Milan. In the 1920s the artist made several productive trips to
Berlin,
Paris,
Madrid and
North Africa; he also stayed frequently in
Switzerland
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, where he was highly rated as a portraitist. In 1930 he took part in his first Venice Biennale, where he displayed his works fairly regularly until 1948. That same year he organized a solo exhibition at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan, with the help of his gallerist brother Ermanno and the painter
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 ...
. After taking refuge in
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
in 1943, after the war and during the 1950s he worked in his studios in Milan and on Burano and Torcello, also travelling widely in Europe and to the United States.
Bibliography
* Laura Casone
Guido Tallone, online catalogu
Artgateby
Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).
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20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian landscape painters
1894 births
1967 deaths
20th-century Italian male artists