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Gino Severini
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Cortona, Italy
Gino Severini was an Italian Futurist painter and mosaicist.
Known for
- Eine Melodie - vier Maler — Self1955
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1883-04-07 ) 7 April 1883, Cortona , Italy
- Died
- 26 February 1966 (1966-02-26) (aged 82), Paris, France
- Education
- Rome Fine Art Institute
- Known for
- Painting, mosaic , fresco
- Notable work
- Pan Pan Dance , Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin , Italian Lancers at a Gallop , Maternity , Conségna delle Chieve
- Movement
- Divisionism , Futurism , Cubism , Return to order , Neo-Classicism , Novecento Italiano
- Awards
- Premio Nazionale di Pittura of the Accademia di San Luca, Rome
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gino
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Cortona
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- artist
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Genre
- still life
- Movement
- Futurism
- Image
- Gino Severini.jpg
- Work location
- Rome
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- date of birth
- 1883-04-07
- Commons category
- Gino Severini
- Commons Creator page
- Gino Severini
- influenced by
- Georges Seurat
- significant person
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- has works in the collection
- Museum Ludwig
- ethnic group
- Italians
- date of death
- 1966-02-28
- start of work period
- 1899-01-01
- end of work period
- 1966-01-01
- name in native language
- Gino Severini
- member of
- Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
- writing language
- Italian
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Works in European collections
5 objects attributed to Gino Severini, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life, he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. During his career, he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions, including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art prizes from major institutions.
Early life
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