Mario Tozzi (30 October 1895 – 8 September 1979) was an Italian painter. He was awarded the
Legion of Honour by the French government.
Biography
Tozzi studied at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.
Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...
in Italy where he met
Giorgio Morandi and
Osvaldo Licini
Osvaldo Licini (22 March 1894 – 11 October 1958) was an Italian painter, active as an abstract artist.
Osvaldo was born in Ascoli Piceno
Ascoli Piceno (; la, Asculum; dialetto ascolano: Ascule) is a town and ''comune'' in the Marche regi ...
. He graduated in 1916.
After the First World War, he moved to Paris, France and founded the ''Groupe des Sept'' (also known as ''Les Italiens de Paris'') with
Massimo Campigli,
Giorgio de Chirico,
Filippo de Pisis
Filippo De Pisis (11 May 1896 – 2 April 1956) was an Italian painter and poet.
Biography
He was born Luigi Filippo Tibertelli in Ferrara. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Bologna beginning in 1914.Gale, Matthew and ...
,
Renato Paresce
Renatus is a first name of Latin origin which means "born again" (natus = born). In Italian, Portuguese and Spanish it exists in masculine and feminine forms: Renato and Renata. In French they have been translated to René and Renée. Renata ...
,
Alberto Savinio and
Gino Severini.
Tozzi returned to Rome in 1936. His work was exhibited at the
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
in 1938, 1942, 1948, 1952 and 1954.
He returned to France in 1971, dying there in 1979.
A catalogue raisonné of his paintings was published In 1988 by Giorgio Mondadori Editore and edited by Marilena Pasquali.
Public collections
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Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France
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Museum of Fine Arts Bern
The Museum of Fine Arts Bern (German: ''Kunstmuseum Bern''), established in 1879 in Bern, is the museum of fine arts of the Switzerland#Federal City, de facto capital of Switzerland.
Its holdings run from the Middle Ages to the present. It houses ...
, Bern, Switzerland
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Pushkin Museum
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (russian: Музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, abbreviated as ) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just oppo ...
, Moscow, Russia
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Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy
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Bologna Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy
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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
References
Further reading
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External links
Archives of the Works of Mario Tozzi
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1895 births
1979 deaths
20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
People from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna alumni
20th-century Italian male artists