Pietro Marussig (16 May 1879 – 13 October 1937) was an

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painter.

Biography

He was born in

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, and initially took lessons there from

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. He worked in Trieste from 1898 until 1918, and in Milan from 1919 until 1937. He painted in a representative expressionist style, depicting

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scenes,

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, and portraits. He was part of a group of Milanese artists known as the

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who exhibited at the Permanente of Milan in 1926 and 1929, and included

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, Achille Funi, Gian Emilio Malerba, Ubaldo Oppi, and

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. The group had fascist leanings and were cohered by Lino Pesaro, a gallery owner, and

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, a writer and art critic who would become

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's mistress. Piero established circa 1930, a school in Milan along with Funi and Bortolotti.Diccionario Akal de Arte del Siglo XX
By Gérard Durozoi, page 418.

References

1879 births 1937 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Artists from Trieste 20th-century Italian male artists Austro-Hungarian painters {{Italy-painter-20thC-stub