Bruno Cassinari (29 October 1912 – 26 March 1992) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked in a style that mixed

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and

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elements.

Biography

Cassinari was born in

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, a city in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region. He attended the local art school but eventually decided to move to Milan, where he studied painting at the

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under

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. In 1946, he helped find the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, an association aiming to restore optimism to post-war Italian art. Other members were

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, Leoncillo Leonardi, and

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. In 1949, Cassinari was invited by

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to exhibit his work at the Antibes Museum of Art. In 1952 he won the Grand Prize for Painting at the 26th

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with his Cubist-inspired paintings, ''The Lemon'' and ''Still Life in Pink''. In the 1960s Cassinari briefly relocated to Venice. In 1986 he was recognized for his contributions to Italian painting with a large-scale retrospective of his work in Milan. Cassinari died in Milan on March 26, 1992, about one year after the death of his wife, Enrica.

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1912 births 1992 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male sculptors Brera Academy alumni Painters from Piacenza {{Italy-sculptor-stub