Neno Mori (1899 - Venice - 1968) Village Landscape

Expressionist village landscape near Venice, where the author of the Italian landscape painting and painter of views Neno Mori 1899 was born and worked. His views and landscapes of Venice were exhibited at the 6th Rome Quadrennial 1951/1952 (catalog). Neno Mori was born in Venice on November 3, 1899. He graduated from the Institute of Art in Venice, in which he completed his artistic arrangement with his friends: the group of painters like Eugenio da Venezia, Seibezzi, Novati, e Varagnolo. He participated in the Ca Pesaro exhibitions in 1920 and won prizes at La Biennale Di Venezia (1934, 1948, 1954). Mori died on November 2, 1968. Mori's painting, as Paolo Rizzi wrote, far from linguistic innovations and experiments formed and abandoned from two different sides, which he intended to provoke: the study of the masters of the 1800s and reality with truth. Its substantial from Venice „… the juices excellently from the end of the 1500s, in one direction, those represented from Tintoretto, Bassano…“ and buy to the tradition of Giorgione and Tiziano on the one hand also taking and adding more together the instinct of the indication, the light. Marco Novati wrote: "… I met Neno Mori in the year 1920. Over 40 years ago… and we were just good friends. We were a" Clan "of certain painters united with affection and sympathy… .. Already from that time already in the first figurative taste of Mori a Vene of special color. He decorated pears, houses, colored clouds with a grace with a breath, full of charm. And I said, "Who, what hands and what eyes. “Then he left in his tough and tough way, like all of us and with continuous accomplishments. The latest still lifes, recent landscapes, painted flowers are great in every way. I have a Soft on color, what style, for which "vollen" his painting. I believe that modern venezianischen painting, under what line of Mori and some other friends of me "firmly, belonged to the most interesting artists ..."

Literature: Comanducci, 1973, V.III; H. Vollmer; V.III
Inscription: signed lower right
Technique: oil on wood framed
Dimensions: unframed 30 x 22 cm, framed 44 x 36 cm
Condition: in very good condition.