GIUSEPPE CASELLI

Large oil painting on canvas depicting the cave located beneath the village of Tellaro. Above it, some of the village's houses overlook the scene, while a rough sea crashes against the rocks. Signed in the lower right corner. The work can be dated back to the 1950s. The dimensions are: 125 x 105 cm including the frame, 100 x 80 cm for the canvas alone. Giuseppe Guglielmo Umberto Caselli, known as Pino (Luzzara, July 5, 1893 – La Spezia, December 19, 1976), was an Italian painter. Born in 1893 in the Villarotta district of Luzzara (Reggio Emilia), he trained at the Scuola libera del nudo at the Academy of Florence. Returning to La Spezia, where he had lived since childhood, he became a student of Del Santo and Discovolo. He came into contact with the artistic environment gravitating around the new magazine L'Eroica by the Spezia writer Ettore Cozzani and dedicated himself to xylographic engraving. In 1913 he met Lorenzo Viani. During the First World War, he was taken prisoner and interned in the Mauthausen prison camp in Austria; from this experience, he drew many premonitory works of the drama of the subsequent conflict. His painting, initially influenced by the early Divisionist experiences of the early 20th century, evolved into a personal expressionism, close to the Austrian innovative movements, but also to Viani's poetics. Many of his works are inspired by memories of imprisonment. With aeropainting works, in 1933 he exhibited at the Premio del Golfo organized by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and would return to participate in many of the subsequent editions. Very attached to La Spezia, he painted the many aspects of the city and its province, of Lunigiana and the nearby Cinque Terre in particular. The Centro Allende of La Spezia dedicated a posthumous anthological exhibition to him in 1981. A regular certificate of authenticity with photos is issued. We guarantee a response to your emails within 24 hours. REGISTERED IN THE REGISTER OF EXPERTS AND CTU AT THE COURT OF LA SPEZIA