Mario Tozzi (30 October 1895 – 8 September 1979) was an Italian painter. He was awarded the
Legion of Honour
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by the French government.
Biography
Tozzi studied at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna in Italy where he met
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, b ...
and
Osvaldo Licini. He graduated in 1916.
After the First World War, he moved to Paris, France and founded the ''Groupe des Sept'' (also known as ''Les Italiens de Paris'') with
Massimo Campigli
Massimo Campigli (; born Max Ihlenfeld, 4 July 189531 May 1971) was an Italian painter and journalist.
Biography
He was born in Berlin, but spent most of his childhood in Florence. His family moved to Milan in 1909, and here he worked on the '' ...
,
Giorgio de Chirico
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian
artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly influ ...
,
Filippo de Pisis,
Renato Paresce
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,
Alberto Savinio
Alberto Savinio , born as Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico (25 August 1891 – 5 May 1952) was a Greek-Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer. He was the younger brother of 'metaphysical ...
and
Gino Severini
Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian Painting, painter and a leading member of the Futurism (art), Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classici ...
.
Tozzi returned to Rome in 1936. His work was exhibited at the
Venice Biennale
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in 1938, 1942, 1948, 1952 and 1954.
He returned to France in 1971, dying there in 1979.
A catalogue raisonné of his paintings was published In 1988 by Giorgio Mondadori Editore and edited by Marilena Pasquali.
Public collections
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Centre Georges Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
, Paris, France
*
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the Place des Terreaux, it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 1 ...
, Lyon, France
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Museum of Fine Arts Bern
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Its holdings run from the Middle Ages to the present. It houses ...
, Bern, Switzerland
*
Pushkin Museum
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (russian: Музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, abbreviated as ) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just oppo ...
, Moscow, Russia
*
Museo del Novecento
The Museo del Novecento ("museum of the twentieth century") is a museum of twentieth-century art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city.
The muse ...
, Milan, Italy
*
Bologna Museum of Modern Art
The Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna or MAMbo is a purpose-designed museum of modern and experimental art in Bologna, Italy. The , which displays a large collection of works by Giorgio Morandi, is temporarily housed in a part of it.
History
Now a ...
, Bologna, Italy
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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
The ("national gallery of modern and contemporary art"), also known as La Galleria Nazionale, is an art gallery in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1883 on the initiative of the then Minister Guido Baccelli and is dedicated to modern and contempora ...
, Rome, Italy
References
Further reading
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External links
Archives of the Works of Mario Tozzi
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1895 births
1979 deaths
20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
People from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna alumni
20th-century Italian male artists