Fulvio Pendini (1907-1975). Padova, Italy. Oil On Panel, Signed Lower Left.

Fulvio PENDINI (1907-1975)
Padova, Italy
Oil on panel, signed lower left
H. 65 cm - W. 65 cm

Good general condition - Some wear

Fulvio Pendini spent his childhood breathing in the scents of the color essences of his painter father and, from an early age, he began to fill notebooks with drawings and colors. After graduating from the Selvatico school, he then attended the courses of the Venice Academy for a few years without completing them. After his military service in 1934, he married Cesarina Bressan, who would be his lifelong companion. Called up for the Second World War, he left his family in an economic situation that was certainly not easy, so much so that on his return he had to accept many jobs, but without straying from the field of drawing and painting that he likes, including one from the superintendency who asks him to design the damaged houses for post-war reconstruction. He decorated the trade fair pavilion devoted to the Great War, which was visited by the king, and became increasingly involved in the decoration of churches and public buildings. This is how he met Cesare Laurenti, Gino Severini and Giò Ponti; these last two are the architects of a revival to which Pendini adheres with enthusiasm. His enthusiasm for painting leads him to get up at night and take his brushes in hand (how many moons in his paintings), helped by the patience of his wife who lets him do it. In 1946 he founded the club "il coccodrillo" (the crocodile), which takes its name from a bar in Piazza Cavour and is a meeting place for many Paduan artists. Having achieved a certain celebrity, he received numerous commissions from public offices. There is a large fresco at the police headquarters, one at the prefecture, at the university in the sottoportico and inside, in the Galleria Santa Lucia, as well as various Paduan palaces, the Banca Antoniana, the Church of the Carmine (glasses) à la Guizza (leaded glass) and Caffè Pedrocchi (frescoes on the loggias).

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