Silvano bozzolini biography

Born in Fiesole he studied at the academy of art in Florence during the 1930's before setting up a group called “Arte d'Oggi”, as well as launching an art journal “Posiziono”, and an artist run gallery “La Porta”.
Silvano Bozzolini was an Italian painter who was born in 1911.
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Silvano Bozzolini

"I would like to be a little stone of a large building."

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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.

When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each sta

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Bozzolini was a prominent exponent of European post-war abstraction and co-founder of the avant-garde group “Espace” that championed geometric abstraction during the 1950’s. Born in Fiesole he studied at the academy of art in Florence during the 1930’s before setting up a group called “Arte d’Oggi”, as well as launching an art journal “Posiziono”, and an artist run gallery “La Porta”. In 1947 he went to Paris to attend the distinguished École des Beaux Arts. He supported himself initially by hand-printing fabrics and his sensitivity to the printed aesthetic would reappear in his later work. He first began to explore abstraction in 1947 and, with the likes of Sonia Delaunay, embarked on a classical, constructivist approach characterised by a simple, clean palette and an emphasis on line. While discussing his work Bozzolini said “La musculature de l’oeuvre est à la fois physique et spirituelle”, (the strength of the artwork is simultaneously physical and spiritual

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Silvano Bozzolini Biography

Silvano Bozzolini was born on 3 November 1911 in Fiesole. He began to approach painting in 1927, when he decided to move to Milan to study at the Brera Academy. A few years later, starting from 1933, he made some trips to Switzerland, Vienna and Sofia in Bulgaria where his friend and painter Vera Nedkova lived. In Sofia, between December and January 1934-35, he organized his first personal exhibition at the "Casa degl'Italiani". Returning to Florence in 1935, he enrolled in the Scuola Libera del Nudo of the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of the painter Felice Carena and four years later, in 1939, he participated in the III National Quadrennial of Art in Rome, where he exhibited a nature dead. During the difficult years of the war, Bozzolini continued to draw, as evidenced by some of his works, including "A glimpse of Tirana", "Albanian Shepherd" or "Country of Montenegro", exhibited in October 1942 in his solo show at t