Massimo Campigli

Massimo Campigli , of its true name max Hilenfeld, (Berlin, July 4th 1895 - Saint-Tropez, May 31st 1971) is an Italian painter .

Biography

Massimo Campigli was born from an unknown father and a Berliner mother, Anna Paolina Luisa Hilenfeld which, for sink the scandal, settles close to Florence. His/her mother marries later Giuseppe Bennet, citizen British. In 1909, the family settles with Milan It is only in 1910 that Campigli learns that he is natural child.

In 1914, Campigli works as private secretary with the newspaper Corriere beyond Will be . It binds then with the current furist and publishes a text under the pseudonym of Massimo Campigni. Volunteer in the war of Italy against the central Empire, it is made prisoner in 1916 in north of Vienna. Succeeding in escaping, it crosses the Hungary, the Moldavie and the Ukraine, to gain Moscow in June 1917 where it is pilot Révolution of October. It then leaves to Mourmansk then London.

Having joined Milan, Campigli obtains Italian nationality. It is of 1919 with 1927 correspondent in Paris of the Corriere beyond Will be , inhabitant street Daguerre. With Montparnasse, he attends the coffee " Dôme" , is interested in the Cubisme and painting of Chirico and takes part for the first time in the Salon of autumn in 1921. He marries in 1926 the painter Rumanian Magdalena Radulesco, known as Dutza. Starting from 1927 it can live of its painting. A voyage to Rome makes him discover Etruscan art .

In 1936 Campigli marries in second weddings the sculptrice Giuditta Scalini. It presents exposures regularly, in France, in Italy and in New York, carrying out frescos in Milan and Padoue. Taken refuge with Venice during the war then returned in Milan, it carries out lithographies, illustrating poetries of Verlaine.

Campigli returns in 1949 to Paris with its family, settles street Delambre in Montparnasse, exposes to the Galerie of France and starts to remain with Saint-Tropez. Palazzo Reale of Milan presents a great retrospective of its work.

Giuditta Scalini dies in Saint-Tropez in 1966 of a long illness. Exposures of Campigli are carried out to Tokyo, Osaka, Paris, Rome and Milan and its painting is present in the principal international exhibitions. Starting from 1967 the painter shares his time between Rome and Saint-Tropez, where he dies on May 31st 1971 of an heart attack.

Writings

Massimo Campigli, Scrupoli , with 5 drawings of Campigli, Edizioni del Cavallino, Venice, 1965.

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