“Fontanazzo in Val di Fassa, Trentino” by Bruno Croatto (1875-1948), oil on cardboard signed on the lower right and titled on the back. Without frame.
He was born in Trieste on April 12th, 1875. In the years 1891-1892 he was a disciple of Gabriel Hackl at the Academy of Munich: but he studied the Impressionists outside school, and eventually the great masters of the fifteenth century. He worked on figures, landscapes, flowers, but from 1908 he emerged in etching and aquatint, in which, neglecting the drawing, he sought only colorist effects and chiaroscuro. He exhibited in Munich, Trieste, Paris, Venice, Rome, Milan, London, Prague, Vienna. In 1930 he held a solo exhibition at the Chamber of Artists in Rome, with many paintings and etchings. Some of his works are kept in the Uffizi Gallery; at the Revoltella Museum in Trieste; in public collections in New York and in England.
Period: early 1900s
Measurements: H 28 X L 33 cm