Alfredo Pina was an Italian artist and sculptor, who was born in 1883 in Milan. The second-biggest city in Italy also was the domain of the world-famous artist Leonardo Da Vinci, whose well-known mural painting The Last Supper still covers a wall in the refectory of the church Santa Maria delle Grazie. Pina studied in Milan at the Accademia di Brera sculpture.

This Academy of Fine Arts was founded by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in 1776 and is situated together with other cultural organizations in the Palazzo Brera. Beside Alfredo Pina other famous artists graduated at the academy, for example the designer and architect Carlo Bugatti (* February 16, 1856 in Milan; † March 31, 1940 in Molsheim, France) and the Italian-...