Roberto Marcello Baldessarri ^©  

(1894 - 1965)

Provenance:
Private collection, Naples

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Roberto Marcello Baldessarri was born in Innsbruck, but soon moved to Rovereto. Luigi Comel sees his drawings and convinces his father to enroll him in the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice where his teachers are Guglielmo Ciardi, for painting, and Emanuele Brugnoli, for engraving. In 1914 he won the Scala Prize of the Academy for landscape. He adheres to Futurism and creates his first experimental paintings by studying the "masters": Carrà and above all Boccioni. He travels a lot both in Italy and abroad, also staying in Naples. which he portrays in some of his works.

(From the website baldessari-futurista.it)