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Giorgio Morandi was born on July 20, 1890, in Bologna, Italy, one of the oldest and most prestigious University towns in Europe. Nearly all his life was spent there working quietly in a modest studio and apartment that he shared with his three sisters. Except for occasional trips to Venice, Florence, or Rome for exhibitions of his paintings and etchings, or summer excursions to the village of Grizzana in the Apennine hills above his native city, Morandi scarcely ever left Bologna. He was exceptionally tall, thoughtful, and soft spoken, and notwithstanding his low-key public profile—Morandi agreed to only two published interviews, both toward the end of his life—his paintings came to be known and in demand throughout Europe and North and South America. He was quickly embraced by the intellectual elite of Italy, being taken up by well-known painters, prominent writers and publishers, and distinguished art historians and professors. As early as 1934, in a public address by Roberto Longhi, then Professor of Renaissance Art at the University of Bologna and unofficial cultural czar of Italy, Morandi was recognized as perhaps the greatest living painter in his country. In 1949 he was featured in the seminal exhibition "Twentieth-Century Italian Art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in 1957 he was awarded the Grand Prize for painting (ahead of Jackson Pollock and Marc Chagall) at the São Paulo Biennale in Brazil. Giorgio Morandi died at his home in Bologna on June 18, 1964.
Giorgio Morandi
(b Bologna, 20 July 1890; d Bologna, 18 June 1964).
Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. At the age of 17 he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna
and discovered contemporary art in books on Impressionism, Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat and Henri Rousseau.
He read with interest the articles by Ardengo Soffici in La voce and saw the Venice Biennale of 1910, where
he first came across the painting of Auguste Renoir. During this period he often went to Florence to study the
works of Giotto, Masaccio and Paolo Uccello. Between 1911 and 1914, when he was in Rome, he was impressed by
the work of Claude Monet and, especially, Paul Cézanne. At the Futurist exhibition Lacerba, held in the
Libreria Gonnelli, Florence, in 1913–14, he met Umberto Boccioni. Shortly afterwards he showed his first
paintings at the Albergo Baglioni in Bologna and the Galleria Sprovieri in Rome. When he was not painting,
he taught drawing in primary schools. As an adolescent he associated with those most receptive to new ideas
in Bologna, including the painter Osvaldo Licini and the writer Mario Bacchelli. In 1918–19 he worked with
Bacchelli and Giuseppe Raimondi (1898–1976) on the Bologna magazine La raccolta and came into contact with
Mario Broglio, editor of the Rome review Valori plastici. Morandi lived in Bologna throughout his life,
except for a number of short stays during World War II in the neighbouring village of Grizzana, where he
painted some landscapes.
Self Portrait, 1925
(b Bologna, 20 July 1890; d Bologna, 18 June 1964).
Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. At the age of 17 he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna
and discovered contemporary art in books on Impressionism, Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat and Henri Rousseau.
He read with interest the articles by Ardengo Soffici in La voce and saw the Venice Biennale of 1910, where
he first came across the painting of Auguste Renoir. During this period he often went to Florence to study the
works of Giotto, Masaccio and Paolo Uccello. Between 1911 and 1914, when he was in Rome, he was impressed by
the work of Claude Monet and, especially, Paul Cézanne. At the Futurist exhibition Lacerba, held in the
Libreria Gonnelli, Florence, in 1913–14, he met Umberto Boccioni. Shortly afterwards he showed his first
paintings at the Albergo Baglioni in Bologna and the Galleria Sprovieri in Rome. When he was not painting,
he taught drawing in primary schools. As an adolescent he associated with those most receptive to new ideas
in Bologna, including the painter Osvaldo Licini and the writer Mario Bacchelli. In 1918–19 he worked with
Bacchelli and Giuseppe Raimondi (1898–1976) on the Bologna magazine La raccolta and came into contact with
Mario Broglio, editor of the Rome review Valori plastici. Morandi lived in Bologna throughout his life,
except for a number of short stays during World War II in the neighbouring village of Grizzana, where he
painted some landscapes.
Self Portrait, 1925
