Leonardo Bazzaro

Leonardo Bazzaro ( born December 13, 1853 in Milan, † November 2, 1937 ibid or in Miazzina ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Bazzaro studied with Gaetano Fasanotti and at the Accademia di Brera, where his younger brother Ernesto was formed. Among his teachers there was Giuseppe Bertini. The first images with which he emerged, were still dominated conventional: Interno della Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio in Milano and Veduta interna della Chiesa di St. Alexander in Milan. In the 1870s and 1880s, he found to his own naturalistic style. Main motives were the nature and country life, such as in Gignese. In addition, he also dealt with harbor scenes he captured about in Chioggia.

Bazzaros works are, for example, in the Museo del Paesaggio, the Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Moderna di Roma, in the Collezioni della Provincia di Milano, Galleria Civica d' Arte in the Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, in the Galleria Civica d' Arte Moderna di Genova, in the Museo Internazionale d' Arte Moderna Ca ' Pesaro di Venezia, in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi di Piacenza, in the Museo Civico di Trieste Revoltella and owned by the Fondazione CARIPLO in Milan.

During his lifetime Bazzaro turned frequently from, among others, in the period from 1897 to 1932 regularly at the Biennale in Venice. In 1914 he had a single room here. The last exhibition after his death was for a long time, the retrospective at the Galleria Guglielmi 1941; in 1998 apparently was again followed an exhibition of his works.