Giovanni Brancaccio

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Cestino con frutta e fruttiera bianca, 1960 (Art collections of Fondazione Cariplo)

Giovanni Brancaccio (Pozzuoli, 1903 – Naples, 1975) was an Italian painter.

Biography

After an apprenticeship as a mechanical draughtsman at the Armstrong armaments factory in Pozzuoli, he took Graphics and Decoration courses at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts, gaining his diploma in 1923. He was the set designer and stage director for the De Filippo brothers’ theatre company from 1927 to 1939, and during both decades he showed his paintings and engravings at many exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1928 and 1938 (where a room was devoted to him) and the Rome Quadriennale (with his own room in 1943 and 1955). He also held many academic posts, including the Chair of Engraving, and later that of Set Design and Painting, at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was director from 1950 to 1970. He won various awards, including the Bagutta Prize in 1959.

Bibliography

Laura Casone, Giovanni Brancaccio, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

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Name	Brancaccio, Giovanni
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Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1903
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Date of death	1975
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