GIUSEPPE CASELLI

Oil painting on cardboard depicting the San Giorgio castle in La Spezia. The work is characterized by broad and textured brushstrokes and can be dated to the 1950s. Signed lower right. The dimensions are: 91 x 71 including the frame, 70 x 50 the painting. Giuseppe Guglielmo Umberto Caselli, known as Pino (Luzzara, July 5, 1893 – La Spezia, December 19, 1976), was an Italian painter. Born in 1893 in Villarotta di Luzzara (Reggio Emilia), he trained at the Free Nude School at the Academy of Florence. Back in La Spezia, where he had resided since childhood, he was a student of Del Santo and Discovolo. He came into contact with the artistic environment that gravitated around the new magazine L'Eroica of the Spezia writer Ettore Cozzani and dedicated himself to woodcut 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 numerous works premonitory of the drama of the subsequent conflict. His painting, initially marked by the early Divisionist experiences of the early 20th century, reached a personal expressionism, close to the Austrian innovative movements, but also to the poetics of Viani. Many of his works are inspired by memories of prison. With works of aeropainting, in 1933 he exhibited at the Gulf Prize organized by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and will return to participate in many of the subsequent editions. Very much connected to La Spezia, he paints the many aspects of the city and its province, of Lunigiana and the nearby Cinque Terre in particular. The Allende Center of La Spezia dedicated a posthumous anthological exhibition to him in 1981. A regular certificate of authenticity with photo is issued. We assure you a response to your emails within 24 hours. REGISTERED IN THE REGISTER OF EXPERTS AND CTU AT THE COURT OF LA SPEZIA