Background
Luigi Veronesi was born on May 28, 1908, in Milan, Italy. His father was passionate about photography. So, Luigi began to explore art through this media at his childhood.
Luigi Veronesi with one of his works.
Luigi Veronesi at work.
Royal Palace of Milan
director engraver painter Photographer scenographer
Luigi Veronesi was born on May 28, 1908, in Milan, Italy. His father was passionate about photography. So, Luigi began to explore art through this media at his childhood.
Luigi Veronesi studied technics and textile design. Then, a twenty-year-old young man, he became an apprentice of the Neapolitan painter Carmelo Violante. Under his tutelage, Veronesi explored the art basics, including landscape and figurative painting.
Luigi Veronesi began his artistic career in 1932 from the group exhibition at the Gallery Il Milione of Milan where he presented to the public his first artworks, most of which were made in figurative style. The same year, Veronesi got acquainted with a French master Fernand Léger and revealed his interest in Russian and Dutch constructivism. There were the first artist’s steps to the geometric abstraction.
Two years later his artistic debut, Luigi became a member of photographic group Abstraction-Création in Paris and joined the Bauhaus method. The same year, the artist presented xylographic works again at the Gallery Il Milione, this time along with German artist Josef Albers.
A year later, Veronesi demonstrated the result of his experiments with abstract style on the group show at the workshop of the painters Felice Casorati and Enrico Paolucci in Turin. He also worked on his first design project by creating the costume sketches for "Pelléas et Mélisande" by Claude Débussy.
In 1936, the artist took part at the Milan Triennale, illustrated the book on geometry by Leonardo Sinisgalli and was featured at the exhibition of abstract art in the Italian city Como.
Luigi Veronesi tired his hand as a filmmaker for the first time in 1938. Since this period, the artist had produced nine experimental and abstract films, some of which were lost at the World War II. Despite, the artist applied his passion for photography and films working as a scenographer. So, he participated at the scenography exhibition in Rome in 1938 and collaborated in this professional field with Giorgio Strehler (on the works by Luigi Pirandello), the Scala Theater of Milan for which he designed many sets. Veronesi also created the scenography of the opera Minnie la candida of Riccardo Malipiero.
The debut solo show of the artist’s works came in 1939 and was held at the Parisian Gallerie L'Equipe. At this time, Veronesi became fascinated with the relations between music and painting. So, the same year, appeared his book "14 variations on a pictorial theme" with the musical commentaries by Riccardo Malipiero.
The photographic activity remained at the post-war period – Luigi Veronesi co-founded photographic group La Bussola. To earn his living, he designed the covers of several advertising campaigns and periodicals, among which were Campografico and Ferrania.
In 1947, the artist exhibited at the Royal Palace of Milan (Palazzo Reale). Two years later, he joined the artistic movement called Movimento d'arte concreta (MAC) and participated at its exhibitions.
The next stage of Veronesi’s professional journey was related to teaching activity. In 1963, he became a professor of the graphic arts and had taught at the graduate course of industrial design in Venice for sixteen years. Later, the artist occupied the professor’s post at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan where he held a course on colour science.
The first year of the 80s began for the artist from the participation at the Venice Biennale. The same year, he had the foremost personal show at the Galleria Spatia in Bolzano, which was followed by the private exhibition in Italian city Pordenone four years later. At the end of this decade, Luigi Veronesi was involved at the creation of a book dedicated to the Italian artist Genesio De Gottardo by Giancarlo Pauletto. It appeared in 1989. At the eighteens, Veronesi also collaborated with the famous Teatro alla Scala and created some sets for it.
Constriction WUH6
Chestnut
Composition Kan 12
Composition EE 1
Sigma Construction N°4
Ken Composition 3
Jote 3
Composition in Red
Composition P13
Construction B5/2
Film Frame
Composition F5
Untitled
Construction R
Motion OH
Organic N. 70
Colored Wood 12/37
Diagonal composition
Light
Construction KF 15
Untitled
Sviluppo n. 5
Rho Construction 3
Prismatico n° 5
Untitled
Composition A4