Ennio Morlotti | Original prints, lithographs, etchings and illustrated books

"Instead we put the views or the light that escapes on things, I began to look at the details, I began to look at the leaves, blades of grass, and I began to think of the life that took place inside these things, the organic side of things and this has begun to move me and I began to live this emotion."

(Ennio Morlotti)

BIOGRAPHY

Ennio Morlotti (Lecco, September 21, 1910 - Milan, December 15, 1992) was an Italian painter.

In 1917 Paolo Angelo Ballerini of Seregno entered the school where he remained until 1922. From 1923, to maintain himself, he combined his work and his artistic apprenticeship. At first he works as an accountant at an oil mill, then he will be employed in a paint factory and then in a mechanical factory. In the meantime he studied ancient art in churches and museums and began to take an interest in contemporary art.

In 1936, after obtaining his artistic maturity as a privateist at the Brera Academy, he quit his job and enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence under the guidance of Felice Carena. He studied Masaccio, Giotto and Piero Della Francesca but, realizing that his Lombard pictorial roots would have been diverted towards Tuscan painting, he soon abandoned Florence.

In 1937 he stayed for a short period in Paris where he came into contact with the great protagonists of European art, from Cézanne to Fauvismo and the Expressionism of Soutine and Rouault. At the Expositions universelles de Paris he knows the work of Picasso, Guernica, remaining strongly impressed.

On his return to Italy he moved to Milan and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.
The first works of those years are those. In 1939 he became part of the group of painters of Corrente with Ernesto Treccani, Renato Guttuso, Renato Birolli and Bruno Cassinari, soon becoming the most extreme of the group.

After a second stay in Paris in 1947, he participated in the New Front of the Arts, and after the split, he joined Birolli and Cassinari at the Ottoello Group of Lionello Venturi. In 1955 he won a purchase award at the third edition of the Spoleto Award.

The subjects most visited by the artist are landscapes, still life and figure studies.

In the sixties many of his paintings have as their subject the olive trees and cacti, following a long stay in the town of Bordighera. In 1962 he will present his paintings at the Venice Biennale where he will be awarded ex aequo with Giuseppe Capogrossi.

In 1963-64 he exhibited at the exhibition Peintures italiennes d'aujourd'hui, organized in the Middle East and North Africa.

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ARTWORKS

Ennio Morlotti, Litografia a colori, 1970

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