GIUSEPPE CASELLI

Oil painting on canvas depicting small boats moored. The coast we see is the west side of the Gulf of Poets at the height of the town of Le Grazie. Signed lower right. Years '40 - '50. The dimensions are: 84 x 65 including the frame, 68 x 49 the canvas only. 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 Free Nude School at the Academy of Florence. Returning to La Spezia, where he had lived since childhood, he was a pupil of Del Santo and Discovolo. He came into contact with the artistic milieu that gravitated around the new magazine L'Eroica of the Spezia writer Ettore Cozzani and devoted 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 numerous works premonitory of the drama of the subsequent conflict. His painting initially based on the early divisionist experiences of the early 20th century, he 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 Gulf Prize organized by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and will return to participate in many of the following editions. Very attached to La Spezia, he paints the many aspects of the city and its province, of Lunigiana and the nearby Cinque Terre in particular. 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