Mario Schifano was born in Homs in Libia on 20 september 1934 and after the war finished he came back to Rome where he first started working at the Villa Giulia ...
Giuseppe Santomaso
Giuseppe Santomaso was born in Venice in 1907. He is a self taught painter raised watching the artworks in the Bevilacqua LA Masa Foundation in Venice. The firs ...
Mimmo Rotella
Mimmo Rotella was born in Catanzaro on 7 october 1918. In 1951 he had his first solo exhibition at Galleria Chiurazzi in Rome. In 1953 he creates his first “dec ...
Mel Ramos
Mel Ramos was born in Sacramento on July 2 in 1935. In 1954 he begins to study art and art history at the Junior College. A year later he changes to the Sacrame ...
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Morciano di Romagna in Italy in 1926 and he is considered among the most important modern and contemporary sculptors. His artworks ...
Gianni Piacentino
Gianni Piacentino was born in Coazze in Italy in 1945. During his studies in philosphy, he worked at a paint factory that produced special paints from 1967 to 1 ...
Mimmo Paladino
Mimmo Paladino was born in Paduli, Benevento in 1948. In the late 1970s he was, along with Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Nicola de Maria, ori ...
Urs Lüthi
Urs Lüthi was born in Kriens in Switzerland on 10 september 1947. He attended the School of Applied Arts in Zurich and started working as a graphic designer. He ...
Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1904. He studied first to the Akademie der schönen Künste of the same city (1924-1926), then studied to the Fine Ar ...
Lucio Del Pezzo
Lucio Del Pezzo was born in Naples on 13 december 1933. In 1955 he took degree in art and join the painting course at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. He ...
Alberto Burri
Alberto Burri was born in Città di Castello in 1915 and studied medicine. He becomes a doctor but was imprisoned during the war in 1943. He is then transferred ...
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella, Italy in 1933. His first group exhibition was in 1955, in 1960 he had his first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Tur ...
Peter Phillips
Peter Phillips was born 21 May 1939 in Birmingham, England. As a main artist of the british pop art, Phillips studied at the Royal College of Art together with ...
Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari was born on 24th October 1907, Milan and was an italian artist and graphic designer and one of the founders of the Italian movement for concrete ar ...
François Morellet
Born in Cholet in 1926 François Morellet , by 1950 at the start of his artistic career François Morellet was more and abstract painter than a geometrical one. T ...