Luis Spazzapan, ( sl, Lojze Špacapan, it, Luigi Spazzapan) (

Gradisca d'Isonzo Gradisca d'Isonzo ( fur, Gardiscja or ''Gardiscje'', sl, Gradišče ob Soči, archaic german: Gradis am Sontig) is a town and ''comune'' of the Province of Gorizia in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, north-eastern Italy. The lawyer, linguist, philologist Ph ...

, 18 April 1889 -

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, 18 February 1958) was a Slovenian painter from the Slovene community in Italy, considered one of the most important postwar Italian exponents of

Abstract Art Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...

. He was born as the third of five children to father Gustav Špacapan ( Italianized Giustino Spazzapan), a prison guard, and Josipina Mervič''Slovene Biographic Lexicon'', Spazzapan Luigi, Luis, Lojze. Ljubljana. 1967, pp 420 — 422
/ref> ( Italianized Giuseppina Mervi). In 1920 he worked as a teacher of mathematics at the middle schools of Idria, where one of his pupils was the author of the first Slovene comic strip

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. Spazzapan left teaching to devote himself entirely to his passion, painting. In 1923 he participated in Padua in an exhibition of

Futurism Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such ...

art movement which he had recently met through the group founded by artists George Carmelich, Sophronius Pocarini, and Mirko Vucetich. His artistic training was accomplished through several journeys he undertook in his youth in the major art centers, including

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with

Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; rus, Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter a ...

, assimilating styles of

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Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

, and

. In 1928 he moved to

, where his meeting the Group of Six of Turin allowed him to create a personal style in his work. In 1936 he was invited to the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

, where, in 1954, had a solo show distinguishing himself as a notable artist.

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* http://www.amicigalleriaspazzapan.it/luigi_spazzapan.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20160416210255/http://www.galleriarosenberg.com/artist/221/spazzapan-luigi {{DEFAULTSORT:Spazzapan, Lojze 1889 births 1958 deaths People from Gradisca d'Isonzo Italian people of Slovene descent 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian male artists

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