Emilio Longoni - Artist Info

About Emilio Longoni

  • Biography

    Emilio Longoni was born in 1859.

    Longoni's style began to develop increasingly in the direction of Divisionism around 1890. Indeed, he is one of the earliest representatives of this new style.


    Longoni subsequently turned his focus primarily to landscape painting, which he reshaped in a poetic, almost dematerialised manner.


    Ignazio Grün, who came from a Hungarian industrialist family, was one of the young artist’s earliest patrons and collectors. He did not only have himself portrayed by Longoni: he also commissioned portraits of his wife Maddalena Monge Grün (catalogue raisonné no. 119) and his two children Giulio and Tonino (catalogue raisonné no....

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