Filippo De
Pizis

Italia • XIX secolo−XX secolo
Filippo de Pisis will (may 11, 1896, Ferrara — April 2, 1956, Milan)
(ital. Filippo de Pisis, Filippo Luigi Tibertelli,) — Italian painter, graphic artist, writer, close to the metaphysical school of painting. novelist, poet and one of the greatest Italian artists of the twentieth century.
Born in Ferrara in an impoverished aristocratic family. In the childhood was fond of entomology and numismatics, archaeology, art history, botany, and even published articles on these subjects in the local Newspapers. He studied painting at secondary level and wrote essays in imitation of Leopardi. He studied at the University of Bologna. Debut book of poems, in 1916.
Met Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Carlo carrà. In 1916, he published a collection of prose poems "Songs Creary", and "Composition in prose" autobiography "Mr. Luigi B." (both 1920).
In 1919 he moved to Rome, I began risovatj 1920, received Philology diploma of the University of Bologna and began studying painting seriously, helped held somewhat earlier acquaintance with the artist John.De Chirico. Published seismicheskoe book city of a hundred wonders (1923).
Were distinguished by eccentricity, led a bizarre life in Rome, Paris (1925-1939), London, Venice (where he held two personal gondoliers). First solo exhibition held in a Paris gallery the rite of Spring (1926). However, De Pisis will still considered his chief task literature, and painting.
Often worked in Venice (1926, 1931, 1943-1947), participated in the Venice Biennale, travelled to Paris. He painted landscapes and still lifes (Flowers, 1928, St. Petersburg, State. The Hermitage).
The scenery of Paris and Venice, executed in bright colours, dominated by blue, gray, white, pink color, architectural monuments, immersed in the gentle light and haze (Church of San moisè, 1931, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera). A favourite motif of De Pisis will was the Piazza San Marco in Venice, which he wrote at different times of the year, in different periods of his life (Piazza San Marco during the war, 1944, Milan, private collection).
In 1925-1939. he lived in Paris, where he began to acquire fame for his seascapes and still lifes. The sensation of the first Paris years is reflected in the book "Young Marquis-artist", published posthumously in 1969 In 1929, De Pisis will have lost a dearly beloved mother. She dedicated the book "Poems" (1939), supplemented in 1942 and 1953 In 1945 he published a book "Some poems and ten color lithographs".
In London I met with Vanessa bell and Duncan Grant. With the outbreak of the Second world war, began to experience bouts of neurosis, which prevented work. Several times been in a psychiatric hospital. Twice exhibited at the Venice Biennale, on the first and third exhibitions, the Kassel documenta.
One of the happiest periods of the life of De Pisis will artist became a stay in Venice 1944-1948 gg Literary evidence of the time – a small book of poems, "the Venetian capture" (ed. 1966). The last eight years was marred by a severe nervous disease, which De Pisis will courageously tried to fight.
Died after a long illness.
The Pisis will belong to portraits, landscapes, still lifes, images of nudity, including male.
In addition to Italian museums, works Pisis will presented in the UK, Brazil, USA.
Go to biography

Pubblicazione

View all publications

Mostre

Tutte le mostre dell'artista
View all artist's artworks
Mostra tutta la bacheca