Renato Birolli

Renato Birolli ( born December 10, 1905 in Verona; † 3 May 1959 Milan ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Birolli was born the son of an industrial working class family. 1923 moved Birolli to Milan, where he founded a group of artists together with other avant-garde artists such as Renato Guttuso, Giacomo Manzù and Aligi Sassu.

Renato Birolli starts at his paintings with expressionist forms of expression that are influenced by the art of Vincent van Gogh and James Ensor. In 1936 he visited Paris and begins to care for the Fauves. 1937 Birolli co-founder of the artistic movement " Corrente ". He wrote articles in various journals. His activities led to a temporary imprisonment in Fascist Italy. Birolli begins to sympathize with communism and later to support the Italian Resistance,.

Birolli moved in 1947 to Paris, where it is inspired by the art of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and began his artistic expression to a kind of post - Cubism to change. Later, he will find his own style in a lyrical form of abstract painting. 1947, Birolli the artistic movement " Fronte Nuovo delle Arti" at.

After the split of the " Fronte Nuovo delle Arti" in 1952, he founded the group " Gruppo degli Otto" with the artists Afro Basaldella, Ennio Morlotti, Antonio Corpora, Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Santomas, Giulio Turcato and Mattia Moreni.

After 1948 his work was exhibited several times at the Venice Biennale.

He took part in documenta 1 (1955) and ( posthumously ) the documenta II in Kassel in 1959.