Luigi Corbellini

Luigi Corbellini (born the August 11th 1901 with Piacenza, in Emilie-Romagna Italy - died the May 9th 1968 with New York, the United States) was an Italian painter of the 20th century.

Biography

Luigi Corbellini is born in 1901 with Plaisance ( Piacenza ) in Emilie-Romagna. His/her father and mother are Celeste Corbellini and Giuseppina Gazzola. He is the 4th child of a phratry of twelve. Piacenza finds with 60 km of Busseto, là-même where was born Giuseppe Verdi, which also will be likely to him to be discovered by a patron, and who will die in 1901, little before the birth of Luigi.

The count Anguissola, his patron, realizes of the provisions of the Luigi young person, then adolescent, and sends it to study with the Accademia (school of painting) Brera of Milan, then with the Academia Albertina of Turin.

In 1920, Desclée de Browers, then with Bruges (Belgium), lance an international contest of painting for its workshop of Lithography: Corbellini gains this contest, thanks to a “Madonna”, whereas it is only 19 years old. It leaves its native Italy then and arrives at Bruges, knowing only the Italian . He knows the Lithographie, but must learn the French.

He also learns Flemish painting. At the end of three years, in 1923, having some economies, it leaves its employment (it will be the only use of its life), for Paris where it settles with Montmartre, in a small hotel, in waiting of a place to the Bateau-Lavoir, where It will have its workshop later one year.

At the summer 1924, it leaves to Deauville where the celebrities find themselves. It paints what it sees, the sea, the beach, until the day when a Mister comes to look at what it paints: the third day this Mister asks to him whether it can paint Portrait S and invites it to come at his place to do that of his/her daughter. He tightens to him a calling card in the name of Robert de Rothschild.

It is the second chance of Luigi. Its portrait meets a so great success that all those invited to admire it require of him to do that of his wife or girl, or it his-even (such Gerlain). As for Profit of Castellane, he asks him to paint any sound stable. Thus Luigi becomes well-known in the world of the horse. It leaves Montmartre for Montparnasse.

He saw his painting very well from now on and is made build, in 1929, into full 15th arr. from Paris, a building comprising three workshops; one of Sculpture at the ground floor, surmounted with 1st and second stages of two workshops of painting. Pass, in the workshop of 1st, several artists that Corbellini, which can recognize the talent, lodges free, such as for example Leonardo Cremonini.

It is attracted by Paris and especially the Voiture S: it buys one and becomes of them the painter of the cars of the decade 1930.

In 1937, it paints the portrait of Maryse Bastié which it meets during an exposure of its fabrics to Limoges and acquires there a service with the decorated with parrots, birds which fascinate it: this service with the leaves the factory of Porcelaine Single France. The history will want that the founders of this factory, Pierre Treillard and Catherine Texier, become one day the back-back-large-parents of its grandsons.

Remained Italian, the Second world war initially sends it in Sweden where it to the honor to make the portrait of the young princes, like that of the children of Lars Schmidt.

It also paints a whole series of children and mothers, carrying bundles, reducing on the roads the horrors of the war: this period, inspired of a Flemish pallet, is named the series of the Without Famille , of the name of the Romance of Hector Malot, through the witch's hats of the illustrations of the first edition of the book, that Corbellini will make carry by the young boys of its fabrics.

Then it is with the the United States that it goes. It is fascinated by New York which it paints enormously.

It will present an exposure to the United States, every odd year, either at Victor Hammer in New York, or with Los Angeles. It also exposes to San Francisco. The even years, it exposes to Paris, at Paul Durand-Ruel.

After the war, it makes several round the world tours, every two years: it settles with Capri during one year, where it carries out tables of a rare quality. It also goes in Asia, with the Vietnam and HongKong, in particular painting bay of the latter. It goes to Tahiti where it is rather the Flore which will hold its attention: it is at that time that it created “its green”, the Corbellini green. He travels moreover in South America, with the Brésil and the Venezuela in particular.

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