Background
Giannino Castiglioni was born on 4 May 1884 in Milan, the son of Giacomo Castiglioni and Piera Bergamaschi. His father was director of the Stefano Johnson mint in that city.
Giannino Castiglioni was born on 4 May 1884 in Milan, the son of Giacomo Castiglioni and Piera Bergamaschi. His father was director of the Stefano Johnson mint in that city.
Castiglioni studied sculpture under Enrico Butti at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan.
He worked mostly in monumental and funerary sculpture. His style was representational, and far from the modernist and avant-garde trends of the early twentieth century. He first exhibited at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906, where he showed medals, a plaster statue and a painting.
He opened a large studio on the Corso di Porta Nuova.
In 1927 Castiglioni opened a second studio at his house in Lierna, on Lake Como. He died in Lierna on 27 August 1971.
He left some of his preparatory plaster casts to the comune of Lierna. A museum is to house them is under construction.