Carlo Servolini

Italian painter

Carlo Servolini
Born	5 April 1876 Livorno, Kingdom of Italy
Died	12 September 1948 Collesalvetti, Italian Republic
Nationality	Italian
Education	Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

Carlo Servolini (5 April 1876 – 12 September 1948) was an Italian artist from Livorno, in Tuscany. He worked in oils, water-colour, etching and lithography. He was the father of the wood engraver Luigi Servolini [it].^[1]

Servolini was born in Livorno on 5 April 1876.^[2] He studied in Florence at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and at the Scuola Professionale di Arti Decorative e Industriali (now the Liceo Artistico di Porta Romana [it]), where he qualified as a teacher of drawing.^[3]^: 146 He received help and advice from Guglielmo Micheli, a pupil of Giovanni Fattori, but did not become an imitator of the Macchiaiolo style.^[2]

He exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia in 1936, 1940 and 1942; his work was shown in Argentina, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.^[1]

Servolini died at Collesalvetti, in the province of Livorno, on 12 September 1948.^[2] In 2006, the comune of Collesalvetti established the Pinacoteca Comunale Carlo Servolini, a public gallery which houses works by Servolini and his Tuscan contemporaries, and also stages temporary exhibitions.^[4]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Carlo Servolini: 1876-1948 dipinti, acquarelli, incisioni (catalogue listing, in Italian). Milan: Silvana Editoriale. Archived March 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Servolini, Carlo. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed March 2016. (subscription required)
^ Francesco Tetro (editor) (2000). Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Latina: catalogo generale, Volume 2 (in Italian). [Latina]: Il Gabbiano.
^ Cristiana Grasso (6 April 2012). Viaggio tra i tesori della pinacoteca Carlo Servolini (in Italian). Il Tirreno. Accessed March 2016.
^ Pinacoteca Comunale C. Servolini Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian). Comune di Collesalvetti. Accessed March 2016.