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1873 Bologna, Italy - 1948 Bologna, Italy. Known for: Fine art painting, book and magazine illustration, drawing.
Alfredo Baruffi (Bologna, Italy 1873 - Bologna, Italy 1948). Although the Bolognese graphic artist Alfredo Baruffi was entirely self-taught as an artist, while maintaining a professional career as a... Read full biography
Alfredo Baruffi (Bologna, Italy 1873 - Bologna, Italy 1948). Although the Bolognese graphic artist Alfredo Baruffi was entirely self-taught as an artist, while maintaining a professional career as a bookkeeper at the Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna, he practiced as an artist in his spare time.... Read full biography
Alfredo Baruffi (Bologna, Italy 1873 - Bologna, Italy 1948). Although the Bolognese graphic artist Alfredo Baruffi was entirely self-taught as an artist, while maintaining a professional career as a bookkeeper at the Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna, he practiced as an artist in his spare time. Sometimes using the pseudonym ‘Barfredo da Bologna,’ Baruffi, in the words on one scholar, ‘in a few years, working alternately at oils, watercolours, tempera and Indian-ink…[he] had produced, with... Read full biography
Alfredo Baruffi (Bologna, Italy 1873 - Bologna, Italy 1948). Although the Bolognese graphic artist Alfredo Baruffi was entirely self-taught as an artist, while maintaining a professional career as a bookkeeper at the Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna, he practiced as an artist in his spare time. Sometimes using the pseudonym ‘Barfredo da Bologna,’ Baruffi, in the words on one scholar, ‘in a few years, working alternately at oils, watercolours, tempera and Indian-ink…[he] had produced, with extraordinary facility of invention, a most varied amount of work both in pure and applied art.’ . He kept a small studio in the Palazzo Bentivoglio in Bologna, working mainly at night, after office hours. Some of his first works as an illustrator were for... Read full biography
Alfredo Baruffi (Bologna, Italy 1873 - Bologna, Italy 1948). Although the Bolognese graphic artist Alfredo Baruffi was entirely self-taught as an artist, while maintaining a professional career as a bookkeeper at the Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna, he practiced as an artist in his spare time. Sometimes using the pseudonym ‘Barfredo da Bologna,’ Baruffi, in the words on one scholar, ‘in a few years, working alternately at oils, watercolours, tempera and Indian-ink…[he] had produced, with extraordinary facility of invention, a most varied amount of work both in pure and applied art.’ . He kept a small studio in the Palazzo Bentivoglio in Bologna, working mainly at night, after office hours. Some of his first works as an illustrator were for the Bolognese humorous magazines Italia ride and Bologna che dorme. As early as 1901, one Italian art critic,... Read full biography
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