Print Ottoforte Teodoro Brenson "Shipyard", 1930
























Print Ottoforte Teodoro Brenson "Shipyard" 1930 c. Riga, 1893 - Peterborough (New Hampshire), September 21, 1959 Profession: painter, engraver, illustrator BIO: Started with the study of art in the schools of Riga, Petrograd and Moscow, Brenson arrives in Italy in 1924 and settles in Rome, where he joined the Roman group Incresore artists and takes contact with other Russians, including Vjačeslav Ivanov and Maksim Gor'kij. Brenson's fame soon arrives in Milan. Here, in January 1927, at the Pesaro Gallery, his first personal exhibition is held; In the introduction to the catalog, his talent is celebrated by Pavel Muratov. During his stay in Italy, Brenson paints numerous Italian landscapes: among these, Rome, Florence, Naples, Venice and some places in Calabria. In 1931 Brenson was already residing in Paris, but maintained contacts with the Italian artistic world: in the archive of Pietro Maria Bardi, historic owner of the Milanese gallery of the same name and since 1929 director of the Galleria di Roma, a letter dated March 14, 1931 from Paris, in which Brenson reports to have spoken to Monsieur Louis Godfroy, owner of a Gallery in Paris, is kept. An exhibition of contemporary engravers that he and Bardi planned to organize in Paris. In November of the same year, at the Milan Gallery in Milan Brenson he participated in a collective exhibition entitled "Peintres graceurs Contemporaines" and dedicated to the French masters of black and white. Instead of April 1933 a personal exhibition, set up at the Tre Arti Gallery in Milan.
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