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Lorenzo Viani

Lorenzo Viani (1882 - 1936) was active/lived in Italy, France.  Lorenzo Viani is known for Figures, portraits, landscape painting, drawing, frescoes, woodcuts.

Born in Viareggio, Italy, Lorenzo Viani was encouraged to study at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Lucca by Plinio Nomellini, running into trouble with the police for his anarchist activities. In 1904 he moved on to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where he was taught by Fattori and Adolfo De Carolis. Viani established friendships with Antony De Witt, Moses Levy, Armando Spadini and Giovanni Papini. Nomellini, with whom he studied at Torre del Lago, introduced him to the surviving Macchiaioli painters. He developed a strong interest in satire and caricature which was first shown in the drawings that he exhibited at the 1907 Venice Biennale.

Very significant for his future development was his encounter with the work of the Belgian sculptor Constantin Meunier and the Belgian painter and etcher Eugène Laermans, who were exhibiting works in Venice that year. Viani travelled to Paris in 1908 where he experienced extreme poverty and met Jean Richepin, the song writer and poet o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4185 characters.]  Artist bio

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