Artist Keywords

Achille Lega

Achille Lega (1899 - 1934) was active/lived in Italy.  Achille Lega is known for Modernist landscape painting, woodcut, lithographs.

Achille Lega trained at a very early age in Florence basing his style on late Macchioli artists, and around 1914 he studied in the atelier of Lodovico Tommasi.  When he left the Accademia di Belle Arti, he became involved in the magazine Lacerba and, in 1916, he joined the Futurist movement and started to frequent the Giubbe Rosse caffé.  In 1917 he painted Ritratto della madre (Portrait of my Mother), which shows the influence of the painting of Boccioni, and Vibrazioni atmosferiche di un aeroplano in volo (Atmospheric vibrations of a plane in flight), one of the first examples of paintings of airplanes.

In 1922, he prepared his first personal exhibition held at the Gonnelli Gallery in Florence. In this period he joined the circle of 20th century Tuscan artists, specializing in landscape painting. He contributed drawings and articles on art for the magazine Il Selvaggio, and in 1926 and 1929, took part in 20th-cent   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1780 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 52 auction lots for Achille Lega (of which 33 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Achille Lega as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Achille Lega in 0 of its research Essays. Achille Lega has 1 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Achille Lega available:    Raffaello Arcangelo Salimbeni,  Bruno Innocenti,  Federigo Papi,  Quinto Martini,  Guido Peyron,  Giovanni Colacicchi,  Luigi Servi,  Ugo Capocchini,  Francesco Gioli,  Edoardo Gordigiani,  Silvio Pucci,  Alphons Hollaender,  Valentino Ghiglia,  Giovanni March,  Giuseppe Fraschetti,  Carlo Passigli,  Luigi Gioli,  Emanuele Cavalli,  Ruggero Michahelles,  Elisabeth Chaplin,  Pietro Senno,  Mario Bucci,  Aldo Affortunati,  Enrico Sacchetti