Background
Soldati was born in Parma, Italy, on August 24, 1896.
Via Brera, 28, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
In 1948 Soldati began to teach at the Accademia di Brera.
Soldati was born in Parma, Italy, on August 24, 1896.
Atanasio Soldati studied architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arte in his native Parma. He completed his education in 1920.
Soldati worked as an architect, concurrently teaching drawing at the Scuola Professionale at Langhirano between 1923 and 1925. Around this time he started to paint. Atanasio Soldati moved to Milan in 1925. His simplified compositions of urban subjects were similar to Pittura Metafisica. Carlo Carrà had the most significant impact on his art of this period.
Atanasio Soldati held his first solo show in 1931 at the Galleria Il Milione in Milan. The same year he met the abstract artists Mauro Reggiani and Gino Ghiringhelli. In the early 1930s, he studied both Cubism and Purism. In March 1932 he exhibited with Bogliardi and Ghiringhelli at the Galleria de Il Milione. His trip to Paris in 1933, brought Soldati into direct contact with the work of Klee, Kandinsky, and Picasso. Carlo Belli, a critic as well as a theoretician of abstract art, wrote the introduction to the catalogue of his second exhibition at the Galleria del Milione in 1933.
By the time of his third show, Soldati's paintings had become fully abstract. In 1936, Soldati decided to join the Paris based international group Abstraction - Création. He again visited Paris in 1938.
The artist interrupted his creative activity to participate in the Resistance movement between 1943 and 1945. During the war, his Milan studio was destroyed, and he moved to Losana near Pavia. After the war, he returned to Milan. Together with Bruno Munari, Gillo Dorfles and Gianni Monnet, he became one of the founders of M.A.C. (Movimento Arte Concreta) in 1948, and he began to teach at the Accademia di Brera.
Soldati was included in Arte Astratta in Italia, the major exhibition organized by The Art Club in the Galleria di Roma in 1948. Aggressive jagged forms in his art proved his interest in Futurism. The overlapping planes can be compared with some of the artworks of Magnelli and Prampolini. Soldati received a room at the 1952 Venice Biennale.
Allegro e fuga
Dal di fuori
Ambigutà composizione
Composizione
Geometrie
Composizione
Composizione
Doppio
Composizione
Composizione
Composizione geometrica
Costruzione
Interno con sedia e pallone
Interno con poltrona
Untitled
Composizione
Collage 6
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Untitled
Composition abstraite
Abstraction
Ferragosto
Composizione
Sogno di una notte d'estate
Composizione
Natura morta (Natura morta con pipa)
Tavolo bianco
Composizione
Untitled
Composizione