“Via delle Scalette in Orvieto” 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 12, 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 dealt with the figure, the landscape, the flowers, but from 1908 he emerged in etching and aquatint, in which, neglecting the drawing, he sought only effects of color and chiaroscuro. He exhibited in Munich, Trieste, Paris, Venice, Rome, Milan, London, Prague, Vienna. In 1930 he held a personal 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 of New York and England.
Period: 1930s / 40s
Measurements: H 28 X L 33 cm
