Michelozzi Corrado (Livorno 1883-1965) - Still Life

Michelozzi Corrado (Livorno 1883-1965) Oil painting on plywood, signed lower left. Painting dimensions 36x50cm    60x72cm with frame Corrado Michelozzi was born in Livorno on August 16, 1883. His father, a farrier, enrolled him in the local School of Arts and Crafts, where he met Natali, Benvenuti, and Romiti. Very young, he began working as an interior decorator, earning the nickname "Borchia" for the numerous decorative elements frescoed on ceilings and walls. At the beginning of the 20th century, together with the painter Umberto Fioravanti, he took a studio in Livorno which quickly became a meeting point for many painters. In July 1920, Corrado Michelozzi participated in the founding of the Gruppo Labronico. Between 1923 and 1929, he exhibited at Bottega d'Arte with a series of personal exhibitions often presented by painter friends such as Plinio Nomellini and Gastone Razzaguta. In 1946 he exhibited at the Galleria Cocchini in Livorno, and the following year the Galleria d'Arte in via Ricasoli dedicated a retrospective to him. An appreciated interpreter of still lifes, he is known as a painter of flowers, and he was also an excellent portraitist. Corrado Michelozzi died in 1965.