Carlo Quaglia - Artist Info

About Carlo Quaglia

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Charles Quaglia
  • Biography

    He completed his studies in Terni where he graduated in accounting and violin at the Bricciardi Musical Institute. He then entered the Modena Academy where he graduated in Economics and Commerce. Commanded as an officer in Libya, in the thirties he was stationed in Benghazi, Sirte and Derna, where he cultivated his passions, the figurative arts and classical music.

    At the beginning of the Second World War, in 1940, he was taken prisoner by the British and transferred to India at Camp 27 of Yol on the slopes of the Himalayas. He spent the five years of imprisonment dedicating himself to the study of the arts, practicing the first painting tests that will lead him to take the decision to become a painter.

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