Aroldo Bonzagni (24 September 1887 – 30 December 1918) was a

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

draftsman A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawi ...

, and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicate ...

born in

Cento, Italy Cento (; Northern Bolognese: ; City Bolognese: ; Centese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. History The name Cento is a reference to the centuriation of the Po Valley. Cento's growth from its origi ...

. He moved to

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

to attend the ''

Accademia di Brera The Accademia di Belle Arti di 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 Brera, Milan's main public mu ...

'' on a scholarship, joining the ranks of avant-garde artists and becoming friends with

Carlo Carrà Carlo Carrà (; February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number ...

Umberto Boccioni Umberto Boccioni (; ; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach ...

, and

Luigi Russolo Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (30 April 1885 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto '' The Art of Noises'' (1913). Russolo completed his second ...

.
He was extremely critical of the elite society of the times and signed the first

Futurist Manifesto The ''Manifesto of Futurism'' ( Italian: ''Manifesto del Futurismo'') is a manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, published in 1909. In it, Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism, which rejected the ...

in 1910. Bonzagni died from the

Spanish influenza pandemic The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest document ...

in Milan.
In Cento, the ''

Galleria d'arte moderna Aroldo Bonzagni The Galleria d'arte moderna Aroldo Bonzagni is an Italian museum, located in Cento. It was founded in 1959 in memory of the local painter Aroldo Bonzagni, who died in 1918 at only thirty years of age. Collection The museum collection is focused ...

'' was established in 1959 in his memory.

Gallery

File:Aroldo bonzagni, il tram di monza, 1910-15 circa (coll. privata).JPG, The tramway to

Monza Monza (, ; ; , locally ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the Lambro, River Lambro, a tributary of the Po (river), River Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the province of Mo ...

1910-15 ca File:Bonzagni - Der Baum der Erhängten -1911.jpeg, The Hanging Tree
1911 File:Leoncavallo - Zingari - score cover.jpg, Cover of the piano/vocal score for Leoncavallo's opera ''

Zingari ' (''Gypsies''), also known as ''Gli Zingari'', is an opera in two acts by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The libretto by and is based on '' The Gypsies'', an 1827 narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin. The opera premiered on 16 September 1912 at the H ...

''
1912 (Treviso) Aroldo Bonzagni - Ritratto di Lyda Borelli - Musei civici - Santa Caterina.jpg, Portrait of

Lyda Borelli Lyda Cini, Countess of Monselice (née Borelli, 22 March 1884 – 2 June 1959) was an Italian actress of cinema and theatre. Her career in theatre started when she was a child, acting on stage with Paola Pezzaglia in the French drama '' I due ...

, 1914,

File:Aroldo Bonzagni - Rifiuti della società.jpg, alt=Aroldo Bonzagni, bozzetto in olio su tela raffigurante tre "rifiuti della società", Poor people
1917-1918

External links

Drawings by Aroldo Bonzagni (1887-1918)

Galleria d'Arte Moderna Aroldo Bonzagni
Italian illustrators Italian male painters 1887 births 1918 deaths Brera Academy alumni Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in Italy People from Cento 19th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub