Claudio BaccalÃ
Claudio Baccalà ( born September 4, 1923 in Brissago, † December 9, 2007 in Locarno ) was a Swiss painter.
Life
Claudio Baccalà came from a Ticino farmers and herdsmen family and lived after the Second World War, first in Pratteln, later in Zurich, from 1950 again in Brissago.
As a self-taught artist and landscape painter, he worked from 1947. Its conveyor Jean Dubuffet made him in the international Art Brut scene, particularly in Paris and Brussels, known; his work was influenced by the artists' group CoBrA. In the 1960s, several works were written on the topics of the cosmos, nature and man under the background of Greek mythologies and philosophies.
His work has been exhibited in Switzerland, Germany and France. In 1973 he was awarded the Kunsthaus Zurich on the occasion of the Biennale of Swiss art with the painter price. In 1997, honored him with an exhibition Locarno.
He died of heart failure and was buried in Brissago. He left behind a wife and two daughters.