Oreste Albertini (28 March 1887 in

Torre del Mangano Torre del Mangano is a frazione and the seat of the municipality of the Certosa di Pavia The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery and complex in Lombardy, Northern Italy, situated near a small town of the same name in the Province of Pavia, n ...

– 7 July 1953 in

Besano Besano is a town and ''comune'' located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Paleontological site The fossils of Besano In 1993 the fossil of a Triassic aquatic reptile dating back to about 235 million years wa ...

Varese Varese ( , , or ; lmo, label= Varesino, Varés ; la, Baretium; archaic german: Väris) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 has reached 80,559. It is the c ...

) was an Italian painter. He first attended the Scuola Civica Pavese at

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

, but at the age of 13 became an

apprentice Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships can also enable practitioners to gain a ...

to the

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

artist Cesare Maroni. Together they frescoed the church of Besano in

. In 1910, he enrolled in night classes at the school of decoration at the Umanitaria of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

and the Brera Academy, paying for his courses by decorative painting and working as a

machinist A machinist is a tradesperson or trained professional who not only operates machine tools, but also has the knowledge of tooling and materials required to create set ups on machine tools such as milling machines, grinders, lathes, and drilling ...

at factories. In 1923, he exhibited at the Brera. By the 1930s he arranged to market his works through

Giuseppe Zecchini Giuseppe Zecchini (born 1952 in Milan) is an Italian historian. He is mainly concerned with the political history of the Roman world in the age of Caesar and Augustus and in the late antiquity and with the history of Hellenistic and Roman histor ...

. After some paintings experimenting with

Divisionism Divisionism, also called chromoluminarism, was the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically..Homer, William I. ''Seurat and the Science of P ...

, he began painting landscapes of the

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and vedute of the Varesotto (urban areas of Varese). In 1938, he exhibited in Milan Cimon della pala-Dolomiti, a work characterized by an amplitude of segantiniana visual memory.

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1887 births 1953 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan Italian landscape painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub