"MAREGGIATA" - GIUSEPPE CASELLI (1893 - 1976)

Large oil painting on canvas depicting a storm. On the left side, a lighthouse signals the proximity of the coast to sailors, while on the right, a wave breaks into white foam. The light is turning to sunset, as can be seen from the reddish color of the sky that shines through the clouds. Signed Caselli at the bottom right. Datable to the 40s/50s of the 20th century. The dimensions are: 85 X 130 (with frame) 68 x 115 (without frame) 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 School of Nude at the Academy of Florence. Returning to 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 xylographic engraving. In 1913 he met Lorenzo Viani. During the First World War he was taken prisoner and interned in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria; from this experience he drew numerous premonitory works of the drama of the subsequent conflict. His painting, initially imprinted on the first 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 imprisonment. With aeropainting works, in 1933 he exhibited at the Premio del Golfo organized by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and returned 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 photo is issued. We assure a response to your emails within 24 hours. REGISTERED IN THE REGISTER OF EXPERTS AND CTU AT THE COURT OF LA SPEZIA