Giovanni Sottocornola
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Giovanni Sottocornola (1855–1917) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was born in Milan of humble origins. In 1875 he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended the courses of Raffaele Casnedi and Giuseppe Bertini until 1880 and met his fellow students Gaetano Previati, Emilio Longoni and Giovanni Segantini. While the portraits and still lifes presented at the Brera exhibitions of the following years enjoyed considerable success on the art market, he began to address social themes early in the new decade and experimented with the Divisionist technique in paintings like The Worker’s Dawn (1897, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan). Later years saw a return to portraiture as well as genre scenes inspired by family feeling and landscapes painted during stays in the pre-Alpine area of Lombardy. A participant in Milanese and Venetian exhibitions, he combined teaching and restoration with painting.
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In 1886 at Milan, he exhibited a canvas titled The Fruit or Venditrice di zucche, and a portrait. In 1887 in Venice, he exhibited a Dilettante; Una pagina comica. At the 1891 Mostra triennale di Brera, he exhibited Un muratore, Effect of a grey and drizzly time; and Fuori porta. The first is a scene in Porte Garibaldi in Milan. Sottocornola also painted still lifes, landscapes, and portraits.[1]
References
- Laura Casone, Giovanni Sottocornola, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).
- ^ ‘‘Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.’’, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page .
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- 1855 births
- 1917 deaths
- 19th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- 20th-century Italian painters
- Italian genre painters
- Painters from Milan
- Divisionist painters
- Brera Academy alumni
- 19th-century Italian male artists
- 20th-century Italian male artists