Alfredo Volpi

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Alfredo Volpi (1896 - 1988), was a famous painter of the artistic and cultural brazilian modernist movement. He was born in Lucca, Italy but, less than two years later, he was brought by his parents to São Paulo, Brazil, where he lived for most part of his life.

Volpi was a self-taught painter, producing his first naturalist painting at the age of twelve. Although his first paintings could resemble, in some way, those of expressionist artists, he soon focused into a most peculiar style, using geometric abstract forms and changing the oil paint by tempera.

The painter gained national renown with his participation at the second São Paulo Art Biennial, wining the best Brazilian painter award. Soon he became known as one of the most important XX century painters in Brazil.