Telemaco Signorini

Telemaco Signorini ( born August 18, 1835 in Florence, † February 10, 1901 ) was an Italian painter of realism.

He belonged to a group of Florentine painters who macchiaioli ( spot painter) called themselves and to oppose academic painting their time. Features were light / dark color zones where their name comes from ( spots).

Life

Signorini was the son of a painter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Giovanni Signorini. He attended from 1852 occasionally the Florentine Academy (due to the Aktklasse ), but turned already in 1854 with Borrani painting of landscapes under the open sky. From 1855 he attended the meeting of the macchiaioli at Café Michelangelo in Florence ( including Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega ). He participated in the Second War of Independence of Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1859 and painted it five Schlachtengemälder which gained him attention. In 1861 he was the first time in Paris, where he met Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot and became enthusiastic about the pictures of Gustave Courbet. In 1862 he founded in a suburb of Florence School of Pergentina. On later visits to Paris (1868, 1872), he befriended Edgar Degas, the most admired his image of the mentally ill in San Bonifacio. He became a leading member of the macchiaioli and also their literary mouthpiece (next to Adriano Cecioni and the art critic Diego Martelli ). Signorini exhibited regularly not only in Florence, but also in Turin, Naples, Vienna, Venice and other places.

In 1881 he traveled to the UK and Scotland for painting ( as of 1883/84 and 1878). He also traveled a lot in Italy and Switzerland. In 1883 he received an offer, a professor at the Florentine Academy to become what he refused. He taught from 1892 at the Instituto Superiore di Belle Arti in Florence.

He had literary inclinations and published literary criticism and poetry (Le 99 discussioni artistiche di Molteni EC ).

Among his most famous paintings heard (besides the already mentioned hall of the mentally ill in San Bonifacio ) an image from the prison of Portoferraio, which also shows the well-known robber Carmine Crocco ( Donatello, 1830-1905 ), and the image Leith from his trip to Scotland in 1881.

He also created engravings, drawings and book illustrations are to books by the art critic Diego Martelli (1839-1896), with whom he lived after his return from his first trip to Paris in Castiglioncello. He founded it in 1867 with the Gazzettino delle arti del disegno.

Gallery

Hill at Settignano

La Via del fuoco, 1881

Old Market ( Mercato Vecchio) in Florence, 1882-83

Ghetto in Florence, 1882

Prison in Portoferraio, 1894, Florence, Galleria d' Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti

Riomaggiore, 1895

Rendezvous in the Forest, 1873

Bakery in Settignano

L' Alzaia, 1864

Entertainment in Riomaggiore 1893

Via Calimala 1889

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