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Remo Brindisi (25 April 1918 – 25 July 1996) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Born in

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, Brindisi was trained by his father, a skilled wood carver, in

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and

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. Having attended the Experimental Centre of Stage Design in

for a short period during 1935, he obtained a grant to study at the Institute of Book Decoration and Illustration in

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, where he specialized in graphic art and printmaking and served a professional apprenticeship as an illustrator. He came into contact with

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and

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in 1940 and held his first solo show there, with a presentation by

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. The period from 1943 to 1946, which he spent in

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, saw the start of large-scale involvement in exhibitions and constant participation in the Rome Quadrennial and the Venice Biennial as well as connections with the major private galleries of

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and Venice. As a result of a move to Milan, the post-war period saw a short phase marked by the influence of Cubist painting as interpreted in an expressionistic and existential sense. Brindisi formed the Gruppo di Linea together with Gianni Dova and

Ibrahim Kodra Ibrahim Likmetaj Kodra (22 April 1918 – 7 February 2006) was an Albanian painter. Biography Kodra was born in Ishëm (Ishmi), Albania, son of Murat and Xhixhe.Macerata Academy of Fine Arts from 1981 to 1983, and president of the Milan Trienniale in 1972. He died at Lido di Spina in 1996.

References

Bibliography

* Elena Lissoni
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