Antonio Fontanesi

Antonio Fontanesi ( born February 23, 1818 in Reggio Emilia, † April 17, 1882 in Turin ) was an Italian painter.

Life and work

Fontanesi studied with the landscape painters Prospero Minghetti and Vincenzo Carnevali and began in the 1840s landscapes and theatrical scenery to paint. In 1848 he took in Milan battles for Italian independence in part ( under Luciano Manara ), as well as briefly again in 1859 at Garibaldi's second war of independence in Bologna.

Fontanesi took a variety of influences from other European countries on the one painting. Fontanesi traveled in 1849 to Geneva, where he met Alexandre Calame and Charles -François Daubigny and remained until 1865. In 1855, he met in Paris, where at the time was world exhibition, along with Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot and Constant Troyon, in 1861, he met in Florence, the representatives of macchiaioli Telemaco Signorini and Giovanni Fattori. In 1863, he tried to settle in London, but was due to lack of jobs back to Florence.

He received a professorship at the Academy in Lucca. From 1869 he lived in Turin, where he became professor of landscape painting at the Accademia Albertina. There he had great influence on the Piedmont painting and in his day was highly regarded, with exhibitions in Lyon, Turin, Milan, Florence, Genoa and Bologna.

He traveled to England, where he was inspired by the works of John Constable and William Turner. 1875 to 1878 he was in Japan ( Tokyo ) at the invitation of the Japanese government in the Meiji era at the art school newly founded ( Kobu Bijutsu Gakko ). The Japanese had decided to take Italian artists to learn Western art techniques ( Yōga ) as a model. He taught there drawing and oil painting, sculpture and Vincenzo Ragusa Giovanni Cappelletti took over the preparatory classes. Fontanesis probably most important pupil was Asai Chū, in the photo in the middle of the back row, half hidden. An illness forced him to return to Europe in 1878.

In 1878 he was in the Dauphiné, where he met François- Auguste Ravier ( 1814-1895 ) became friends.

A greater number of his works is located in Turin's " Galleria d' arte moderna e contemporanea civica ( GAM) " and is also on display.

Gallery

Alla Fontana, Galleria Nazionale d Arte Moderna, Rome

Alone in the spring