Violoncellista modigliani biography
The Cellist (Le violoncelliste) is a painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani who was well known for his portraits in the early 20th century.
Amedeo Modigliani was born in Livorno in In he began to attend the painting school of Guglielmo Micheli, as a pupil of Fattori, in Livorno....
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani was born in Livorno in 1884.
In 1898 he began to attend the painting school of Guglielmo Micheli, as a pupil of Fattori, in Livorno after he dropped out of high school because of a lung disease which, due to a relapse, led him in 1901 to recover in southern Italy.
In 1902 he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, attending the lessons of Fattori at the Free School of Nude and sharing the study with Oscar Ghiglia, with whom he participated in the artistic life of the city with Costetti, Gemignani, Lloyd, Sacchetti, Andreotti; in 1903 he moved to the Venice Academy.
Like Alfredo Müller and other Livornese painters of his time he tried to overcome the now tired legacy of the “Macchiaoli” by taking an interest in the novelties of the Secessions and moving away from the city of origin, until in 1906 he landed in Paris, where, while getting to know the fauves and the Cubism, of Japanese art and painting by Klimt and Toulouse-Lautrec, part