Paola Levi-Montalcini

Paola Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 29 September 2000) was an Italian painter.

Personal life

She was born in Turin, Italy to parents who were Sephardi Jews.[1] She was one of four children. Her fraternal twin sister was the neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize in 1986 in medicine.[2] She also had an older brother, Gino, an engineer and architect,[3] and an older sister, Anna (Nina).[1]

Relationships and influences

In the late 1920s she studied under Felice Casorati.[3]

Giorgio de Chirico wrote the first monograph on Levi-Montalcini in 1939, noting "her preferences for solid construction, large surfaces . . . and tendency to draw attention to the fantastic aspect of reality".[3] She studied engraving with Stanley William Hayter following World War II. Hayter also trained her in automatic writing and gestural abstraction.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy D. Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20 Th Century. Taylor & Francis. pp. 779–. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "PAOLA LEVI-MONTALCINI". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Vivian B. Mann; N. Y.) Jewish Museum (New York (1989). Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy. University of California Press. p. 336. ISBN 978-0-520-06825-4. Retrieved 31 December 2012.