Giovanni Brancaccio

(1903 - 1975)

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Giovanni Brancaccio was born in Pozzuoli in 1903 and in 1927 he joined the so-called Gruppo Flegreo together with young artists such as Mercadante, Ciardo and De Val. In 1923 he graduated in Graphic Arts and Decoration at the Art Institute of Naples, where he taught engraving from 1925 to 1935. He studied mainly through the copy of paintings of the National Museum and thus acquired a firm knowledge of the pictorial technique, especially of the Neapolitan artistic tradition. Inspired by a secentism reinterpreted in a very original way, the artist exhibits the first significant paintings around 1932, when he participates in the Venice Biennale. In the early Thirties Brancaccio also devoted himself to sculpture and this era dates back to the sketches and large works. 

(From the biography Giovanni Brancaccio curated by Aanna Giannone)