| Anti-Fascist, anti-establishment artist Mino Maccari, a protégé of Pablo Picasso was born in Siena in 1898, at the age of 19 Mino Maccari fought in the First World War as an artillery officer. On his return to Siena in 1920, he graduated in law. It was during these years that he first tried painting and etching.
In 1924 Angelo Bencini asked him to take charge of printing Il Selvaggio, the periodical in which his first etchings were published. In 1926 he gave up his law career to take over as director until 1942.
In 1928 Maccari went to the XVI Venice Biennial. In 1931 he took part in the first Quadrennial in Rome (which he was to repeat in 1951 and 1955).
In 1938 he was invited to the XXI Venice Biennial where he had his own exhibition room. He exhibited again at the Venice Biennial in 1948, where he was awarded the international prize for etching (which he was to win again in 1950, 1952, 1960 and 1962).
At the end of the Forties he started to contribute to the literal magazine Il Mondo directed By Pannunzio, which he continued to do until 1963. In 1962 he was appointed president of the Accademia dei Lincei; then in 1963 he held a personal exhibition in New York at the Gallery 63, and in 1967 he took part in the Mostra dArte Moderna in Italia 1915-1935 (Exhibition of Modern Art in Italy 1915-1935) held in the Strozzi Palace in Florence. Other personal exhibitions were held of graphic including the 1977 one-man exhibition in Siena dedicated to his work, held at Palazzo Pubblico.
He died in Rome in 1989. |
