The Gruppo Labronico is an Italian artistic association founded in
Livorno in 1920.
History
The Labronico group of artists is rooted in the heyday of the
Caffè Bardi
The former Caffè Bardi was a notable coffee house and meeting place in the 19th through mid-20th century for artists and intellectuals in Livorno, a region of Tuscany, Italy. The coffee-house no longer exists and stood at the corner of via Cairoli ...
.
After the Caffè closed and the death of
Mario Puccini
Mario Puccini (28 June 1869, Livorno – 18 June 1920, Florence) was an Italian Post-impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and village scenes. He was sometimes referred to as "The Italian Van Gogh". , the Gruppo Labronico was founded in
Gino Romiti
Gino Romiti (1881–1967) was an Italian painter, active in Livorno.
Biography
He was born in Livorno, and trained under Guglielmo Micheli, along with Manlio Martinelli, Llewelyn Lloyd, Amedeo Modigliani, and Aristide Sommati. In 1898, he exhi ...
's studio on July 15, 1920.
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Maestri Fondatori, Foundation website based on the source of Gastone Razzaguta, Virtù degli artisti labronici, Livorno, Editrice Nuova Fortezza, 1985. Among the other founders of the Gruppo Labronico were:
Gino Romiti
Gino Romiti (1881–1967) was an Italian painter, active in Livorno.
Biography
He was born in Livorno, and trained under Guglielmo Micheli, along with Manlio Martinelli, Llewelyn Lloyd, Amedeo Modigliani, and Aristide Sommati. In 1898, he exhi ...
,
Adriano Baracchini-Caputi, Tito Cavagnaro, Gino Cipriani,
Goffredo Cognetti
Goffredo Cognetti (Naples 1855 – Castiglioncello, Livorno 1943) was an Italian writer.Cosa Nostra Social Club Goffredo Plastino · 2014 Goffredo Cognetti (1855–1943) «dopo la pubblicazione di Prime armi. Bozzetti (1877), comparve come coauto ...
, Beppe Guzzi, Giovanni March,
Corrado Michelozzi
Corrado Michelozzi (16 August 1883 – 1965) was an Italian painter, active in Livorno in a Divisionist style, mainly depicting still lifes with floral and fruit arrangements.
He was born in Livorno. As a boy he trained as a decorative painter of ...
,
Renato Natali
Renato Natali (10 May 1883 – 7 March 1979) was an Italian painter, member of the post-Macchiaioli group of painters in Livorno during the first half of the 20th century. He often painted proletarian neighborhoods of the industrial port city of L ...
, Gastone Razzaguta, Renuccio Renucci,
Carlo Romanelli
Carlo Alfred Romanelli (1872–1947) was an Italian sculptor, born in Florence, Italy August 24, 1872 and died August 9, 1947. He came to the United States in 1902, settling in Los Angeles, California.Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in ...
,
Ferruccio Rontini
Ferrucio Rontini (1893 – 1964) was an Italian painter, active in Livorno.
Biography
He was born in Florence, and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. He was one of the founders of the Gruppo Labronico
The Gruppo Labronico is an It ...
, Cesare Tarrini, Alberto Zampieri and Giovanni Zannacchini.
Gino Romiti was president of the group from 1946 until its closing.
Mario Borgiotti
Mario Borgiotti (22 August 1906 – 19 December 1977) was an Italian painter and art collector.
Biography
Mario Borgiotti was born to a working class family and originally studied violin. In the 1920s he met Ulvi Liegi, Gino Romiti, Umberto V ...
joined the group in 1947 and became its President in 1967.
In May 2014, the Gruppo Labronico donated its historical archives (1920-1932) to the city of Livorno. The inventory of the archives is available at the
Museo Civico "Giovanni Fattori". In 2020, the group celebrated one hundred years of existence.
Bibliography
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Filmography
* ''Gruppo Labronico'' (2010), documentary by Luca Dal Canto
See also
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Caffè Bardi
The former Caffè Bardi was a notable coffee house and meeting place in the 19th through mid-20th century for artists and intellectuals in Livorno, a region of Tuscany, Italy. The coffee-house no longer exists and stood at the corner of via Cairoli ...
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Macchiaioli
The Macchiaioli () were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They strayed from antiquated conventions taught by the Italian art academies, and did much of their painting outdoors in order to ...
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Italian modern and contemporary art
References
External links
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Italian art movements
Modern art
Landscape art by school
Painters from Tuscany
Italian artist groups and collectives