Biography of Eugenio Da Venezia

The domain of the form

November 9, 1900
September 8, 1992
Eugenio Da Venezia was born in Venice on November 9, 1900. It is the champion of Italian figurative with influences of French impressionism. And its Pierre Bonnard that after seeing his paintings exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1932 and 1934 to synthesize the poetics that characterizes it unto death: "an artist endowed with important qualities and great sensitivity to color, the advice I would give is to deepen the study of the form, in order to master and at times seemingly destroy." Eugenio Da Venezia did just that. A path that starts at the State Institute of art continued at the Academy of fine arts in Venice with teachers such as Vittorio Bressanin, Emilio Paggiaro and Ettore Tito. Simultaneously combines anatomical studies to the civil hospital of Venice, with his friend the painter Marco Novati, important to start to master the form. Venice is the central town of his life so much that: "fed my youthful enthusiasm for art, giving to me the ardent desire to go deeper into the study of painting".
With friends painters Fathy Seibezzi, Mario Varagnolo, Neno Mori, Marco Novati and a figurative Giuseppe Santomaso is one of a group nicknamed "the youth of Palazzo Carminati. The subjects range from the Venice lagoon landscape, the hills and mountains, portraits, flowers up to still life. For the use of color and tones tending towards clear proposes a second generation of the school of Burano. Begins his exhibits at Exhibitions of CA ' Pesaro in Venice, where he continuously since 1925 to 1956 with groups of works. Participate then at the exhibition of art in Florence (1933), the exhibition of art in Naples (1935), the exhibition of contemporary drawing in Florence (1937). From 1932 to 1956 participates as invited at international art Biennale of Venice.
In the 1934 knows the Duc de Trèvise-Sauvegarde de l'Art Francais-(Edouard Napoléon 1883-1946 César Edmond Mortier de Trévise) who encourages him and invites him in 1935 to open a solo exhibition in Paris, where periodically until the beginning of World War II. During this period, Goguryeo and encouraging him in artistic activity known Pierre Bonnard. He returned permanently in Italy, he was invited with a solo exhibition at international art Biennale of Venice (1940). Further to this, the Ministry of education appointed him for "Fame" teacher of Painting at the Art Institute of Venice. Later, in 1947, began teaching at the Academy of fine arts in Venice in the Chair Designated shape.
Join by invitation, in exhibitions abroad organised by Biennale internazionale d'Arte in Venice: in Vienna (1933), Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Bucharest, Sofia, Prague, Brugge, Schaerbeek, Cairo (1935), Budapest (1936), Berlin (1937). Always at the invitation takes part: at Trivenete of Padua (from 1934 to 1965), at Rome Quadrennial (1935, 1943, 1948), "forty years of international art Biennale of Venice" (1935), "Paris" (1951), "Rome" (1951), "Maina" of 1948, 1950, 1954, "Marzotto" (1954, 1955). He exhibited in many group shows in Italy with the Group of "thirteen" Venetian artists in Rome, Florence and Milan, with other groups of Venetians in Milan, Pavia and Rome and with the Group of "painters of Bardonecchia" in Rome in 1951 and Milan in 1953.
He exhibited with solo exhibitions in Venice in 1934, 1938, in Paris in 1935 in Venice in Venice, the Biennale internazionale d'Arte in 1940, in Milan in 1941, in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1942, Trento and Rovereto in 1949, in Venice in 1951 and in 1968 with a retrospective exhibition (works from 1930 to 1968) Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice. Subsequent exhibitions follow one another in the years up to 1990 with the last exhibition at the Querini Stampalia Foundation as part of its contribution. His works are in the collections of: international modern art gallery in Venice, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Rome, Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Museo Civico di Rovereto and in many organizations such as Assicurazioni Generali di Venezia, Fondazione Venezia, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo to name a few. Eugenio Da Venezia died in Venice at the dawn of the day September 8, 1992.
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