Boldin Giovanni
(Boldini, Giovanni)
(1842-1931), Italian painter, a portraitist and genre painter. Born in Ferrara, 31 December 1842 in the artist's family. For six years he studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts, then in 1869 he worked in London, where he gained fame as a portraitist. In 1872 he settled in Paris and began to exhibit his work at the Salon. In the genre and landscape painting, and later in the portrait Baldini used the experience of masters of plein air painting and the Impressionists. His works are distinguished by the virtuosity of painting technique and a remarkable harmony of color. Portraits of Adolph Menzel (1895, Berlin - Dahlem) and James Whistler (1897, New York, Brooklyn Museum) characterize it as a profound and insightful portrait. Between 1890 and 1910, Baldini has created a series of brilliant portraits of famous public figures and people in the arts and theater. In this area, it was a serious contender John Singer Sargent. Baldini twice won the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris - in 1889 and 1900. In 1932, after the death of the master, took his solo exhibition in the Venice Biennial in 1933 was organized a memorial exhibition dedicated to him in New York. In 1935, the exhibition of Italian art in Paris, was presented eight paintings by Baldini, including six portraits, among which were portraits of the composer Giuseppe Verdi and poet, Count Robert de Montesquieu. Baldini paintings were exhibited along with works of Sargent in a special exhibition at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco in 1959.
Baldini died in Paris on January 12, 1931.
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