Umberto Pettinicchio

Umberto Pettinicchio (born 1943) is an Italian painter and sculptor.[1]

Umberto Pettinicchio

Biography

He was born in Torremaggiore[2]: 1451  and moved to Milan, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and had his first show in 1969.[3]: 103 

His early paintings were in the expressionist style but became increasingly more abstract.[4] His 1981 painting The Death of the Bull is held in the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria.[5]

References
  1. Carella, Elvira (31 January 2010). "Le colline della Brianza e i suoi stupendi campanili sono la mia ispirazione". Il Giorno. Retrieved 8 March 2017 (in Italian).
  2. Giorgio Di Genova (2007). Storia dell'arte italiana del '900, volume VI, part 1 (in Italian). Bologna: Edizioni Bora. ISBN 9788888600390.
  3. [s.n.] (1983). Los Cuadernos del norte, volume 4, issues 17-22 (in Spanish). Oviedo, España: Caja de Ahorros de Asturias.
  4. Scantamburlo, Elisabetta (curator). Catalog: Milano Art Design, 21 May–30 October 2015, p. 24
  5. Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. Umberto Pettinicchio.
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