Paintings> 1900 > 'S.Maria Maggiore's church' in Lanciano, oil on canvas by Federico Spoltore (Italy, Lanciano, 1902–1988).
'S.Maria Maggiore's church' in Lanciano, oil on canvas by Federico Spoltore (Italy, Lanciano, 1902–1988).
Description:Federico Spoltore was born in Lanciano, Italy, in 1902. He began very young to paint visual art. Before leaving his native Region, he came into contact with Francesco Paolo Michetti, Basilio Cascella and the ceramist Cappelletti.
He graduated in 1924 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he was prof. Umberto Coromaldi assistant in the painting course.
He lived in France and England.
His veristic period was followed by the important phase of portraits, short after his return to Italy in '32. He made the official portrait of Mussolini, King Vittorio Emanuele III and Pope Pius XII.
He travelled all over Europe and predominantly portrayed rulers and statesmen, including Stalin, Hitler, and Trumann. In 1948, he made the portrait of the first President of the Italian Republic Enrico De Nicola. He portrayed Einstein and the father of the abstractism Kandiski, who he had met in Berlin in '34, along with Paul Klee.
In the 1950s he turned to abstract art and symbolism, although he never gave completely up portraiture and landscape painting.
The fourteenth-century palace of his ancestors in Lanciano, where Spoltore had his aterlier and from where he could see the ancient church of Santa Maria Maggiore, has been transformed into a museum.
Some of his works are in the Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo, L'Aquila.
Age:c. 1935-1940
Dimensions:35 x 27 inc.
Price: Sold
Item n°: GF 128
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