Background
A. H. Pellegrini was born in Basel, the son of Isodoro Pellegrini, a stone sculptor from Stabio in the Italian part of Switzerland.
A. H. Pellegrini was born in Basel, the son of Isodoro Pellegrini, a stone sculptor from Stabio in the Italian part of Switzerland.
After high school, A. H. Pellegrini matriculated at the Basel Craftschool where he studied under Fritz Schider and Albrecht Wagen. From 1899 to 1901 he studied at the Gabriel von Hackl the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, after which he returned to Basel.
Along with Heinrich Altherr, Paul Bodmer and Walter Clénin, he was one of the most prolific Swiss muralists of the first half of the twentieth century. While continuing as a commercial artist, beginning in 1908 he took lessons from Adolf Hölzel at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart). In the 1913 schism he went with the "New Munich Secession", and in 1914 moved to Munich.
In 1917 he returned to Basel.
By 1906 he was a member of the Munich Secession art cooperative and working in Stuttgart, first as an illustrator and then as a commercial artist.