Achille Beltrame
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Achille Beltrame (18 March 1871 in
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– 19 February 1945 in
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), was an
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painter and illustrator.


Biography

He initially studied in Vicenza, but then enrolled in the
Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...
. In 1899, he began working as an illustrator for the newspaper
Corriere della Sera The ''Corriere della Sera'' (; en, "Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015. First published on 5 March 1876, ''Corriere della Sera'' is one of It ...
and illustrated the ''La Domenica del Corriere'' of Milan. He pursued this task for nearly 50 years. He was succeeded in this position by the illustrator Walter Molino. Beltrame held his first solo exhibition at Ranzini Gallery in 1941 in Milan.


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19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Painters from Milan Brera Academy alumni Italian illustrators 1871 births 1945 deaths 19th-century Italian male artists People from Arzignano {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub