Guglielmo Micheli

Guglielmo Micheli ( born October 12, 1866 in Livorno, † September 7, 1926 ) was an Italian painter. He was a pupil of Giovanni Fattori and a teacher by Amedeo Modigliani. Through the influence Fattori he was the successor of the macchiaioli.

Life and work

Micheli began his artistic training with the painter Natale Betti in Livorno. He won a scholarship from a foundation of commercial entrepreneur Bastogi Michelangelo, with whom he could go to Florence and enrolled at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. He also attended the painting class of the Scuola libera di nudo by Giovanni Fattori, with whom he befriends and whose favorite pupil he was.

From 1894 to 1906 Micheli lived in Livorno, where his studio a school for many painters of the generation of post- macchiaioli was among them Amedeo Modigliani, Llewelyn Lloyd, Manlio Martinelli, Gino Romiti, Oscar Ghiglia, Renato Natali and Giulio Cesare Vinzio.

From 1907 until the end of his life taught at various Micheli Italian art schools: 1907 in Acqui Terme, then, Iglesias, Cortona, Sassari, Caltanissetta, Bari, Pisa and finally in Arezzo.

Michelis early phase was of the macchiaioli, in the choice of subject, especially by Fattori influences (eg landscapes with horses and cattle); later, he found to his own style, which had especially its marine and harbor views success. He created alongside drawings and oil paintings, watercolor paintings, engravings and book illustrations.