Eugenio Gignous

Eugenio Gignous (* August 4, 1850 in Milan, † August 30 1906 in Stresa ) was an Italian painter and a representative of the Italian Impressionism.

Life

Gignous studied in the years 1864-1870 at Oscar Ricciardi and Gaetano Fasanotti at Milan's Accademia di Brera. Among the local influences of Tranquillo Cremona and Filippo Carcano he turned to plein-air painting ( plein air painting ). After 1870 he exhibited frequently at first from among the great Italian art exhibitions in Turin, Genoa and Venice. Later he came to some fame and international reputation ( exhibitions and awards in Paris, Munich, London, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro). In 1887 he settled in Stresa on Lake Maggiore. In those days he wrote many of his landscape paintings.

Work

First, his work still a realistic style with solid contours was required. This was then more and more replaced by a freer, observed the effects of light painting. Here affinities show to the French Impressionists and the Italian contemporaries in Florence and Naples, the macchiaioli (of Italian Macchia for stains). However, his works are always closer to nature, the resolution of the contours is never a determining element. Art History, he is therefore between Impressionism and " verismo ", the Italian brand of realism. For him, the realism was always decisive.

His works can be seen in some museums in Italy. Many images are also privately owned, which is why they get not rare in the international art trade.

Works in public collections

  • Veduta del Monte Rosa, Galleria d' Arte Moderna, Rome
  • Primavera, Galleria d' Arte Moderna, Milan
  • Sul Mottarone, Galleria d' Arte Moderna, Milan
  • Lago Maggiore, Feriolo di Palazzo Leoni Montanari Gallery, Vicenza
  • Paesaggio con treno, di Palazzo Leoni Montanari Gallery, Vicenza
  • Pecetto Macugnaga, Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza
  • Prima neve, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi, Piacenza
  • Bosco, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi, Piacenza
  • Pianura Lombarda, Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania Pallanza
  • Fletschhorn, Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania Pallanza
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