Filippo De Pisis

Filippo De Pisis ( born May 11, 1896 as Luigi Tiber setting in Ferrara, Italy, † April 2, 1956 in Milan ) was an Italian painter.

Luigi Tiber setting adopted the stage name " Filippo de Pisis " in memory of his ancestors " Filippo da Pisa ", which has lived in the 15th century as a military commander.

De Pisis was a painter of the Novecento Italiano. He is considered a representative of Italian Futurism in painting. His works have a Post-Impressionist and partly expressive character.

Filippo De Pisis worked in his youth as a poet and writer. He attended the University of Bologna and began to reside in artistic circles there. In 1917 de Pisis learned in Ferrara the artist Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Carrà and Alberto Savinio know that belong to the founders of metaphysical painting. From 1920 to 1925 he lived in Rome. During this time matured his decision to become a painter.

1925 moved Filippo De Pisis to Paris and lived there until 1939. France De Pisis began to study the French painter of the 19th century and the Impressionists and contemporary painting. In Paris, De Pisis painted street scenes and his famous portraits of the people in the metro, on the Seine and in the streets of the old town. Its writers were people on the street, immigrants and underground survivors, workers and street urchins. Also emotionalisierte still life are among his paintings in Paris.

In 1939 Filippo De Pisis back to Italy and lived and worked in Milan and Venice. A chronic illness forced him from 1948 to frequent visits to clinics. Nevertheless, he did not stop with his artistic activity and still managed numerous remarkable images. In 1953 he was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize. De Pisis was in 1955 at the documenta in Kassel 1. In 1964, posthumous works by him on the documenta III were shown.

Filippo De Pisis died on 2 April 1956 in Milan.