Giuseppe Cominetti (1882–1930) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He was born in

Salasco Salasco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about west of Vercelli. The municipality of Salasco contains the ''frazione'' Selve, a typical '' cascina a c ...

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. His brother Gian Maria Cominetti (1884–1961) was a notable writer and screenwriter. He studied until 1898 in the Lyceum Massimo D'Azeglio in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...

. He received his first training at the Albertina Academy of

, but moved in 1902 to

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...

where he came into contact with

Plinio Nomellini Plinio Nomellini (1866–1943) was an Italian painter. Biography Nomellini was born in Livorno in 1866. In 1885 he enrolled at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Giovanni Fattori and formed friendships with Telemaco Sign ...

and the work of Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen. He was part of the ''Grupo dei Nove'' and in 1907, he exhibited ''I conquistatori del sole'' at the Promotrice of Genoa. This painting was also displayed in 1909 at the ''

Salon d'Automne The Salon d'Automne (; en, Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The f ...

'' of Paris. At this time, he moved and frequented the artistic circles of the

Montparnasse Montparnasse () is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail. Montparnasse has bee ...

and

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neighborhoods in Paris. His paintings blended symbolist subjects and divisionist styles. From 1903 to 1912, he participated at the Promotrice of Genoa. In 1909, he moved to

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

, and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and he cosigned

Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye ...

Futurist Manifesto The ''Manifesto of Futurism'' (Italian: ''Manifesto del Futurismo'') is a manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published in 1909. Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism that was a rejection of th ...

. His painting was influenced later by Fauvism and Futurism. He was influenced by the

Scapigliatura ''Scapigliatura'' () is the name of an artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–71). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of ...

painter

Gaetano Previati Gaetano Previati (1852 – 1920) was an Italian Symbolist painter in the Divisionist style. Biography Previati was born in Ferrara. He relocated to Milan in 1876 and enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Giuseppe Bertini, G ...

. In 1908, he painted ''Matrimonio''; in 1910, ''Lussuria''; in 1913, ''Strada a Montmartre''; in 1914, ''Tango''; and in 1919, ''L’Electricité''.''L’Electricité'' is now in Museum Borgogna of

Vercelli Vercelli (; pms, Vërsèj ), is a city and ''comune'' of 46,552 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, ...

. During the first World War, in which he had ardently supported the entry of Italy, he worked as a correspondent. Cominetti died in Rome in 1930.

References

1882 births 1930 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Piedmont Divisionist painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists Italian expatriates in France {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub