Luigi corbellini biography

Luigi Corbellini (11 August 1901 – 9 May 1968) was an Italian post-impressionist painter and sculptor.

Early life

Corbellini was born in 1901 in Piacenza, Italy,^[1] the fourth of twelve children of Celeste Corbellini and his wife Giuseppina Gazzola.

He began art lessons there at a young age. At thirteen, he joined the Brera Academy in Milan, and after that the Albertina in Turin.^[2]

In 1920, when Corbellini was nineteen, the Desclée de Brouwer publishing firm of Bruges announced an international painting competition which he won with a portrait of the Madonna.

Luigi corbellini biography

He was then taken on in the firm's lithographic studio. He arrived in Bruges speaking no French, which he had to learn. He also studied painting with Flori van Acker. He worked for Desclée de Brouwer until 1923 and later noted that this was the only job he had ever had.^[3]

In 1923, Corbellini moved to Paris and took a room in a boarding house in Montmartre, waiting