Enrico Baj - Artist Info

About Enrico Baj

  • Biography

    The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.

    Enrico Baj was born in Milan, Italy on October 31, 1924. His father. mother and sister were engineers, and in an effort to hold his own in such a professional household, he trained for medicine and then switched to law. He studied law from 1937 through 1939 in Milan, but practiced desultoryily, much preferring to haunt the artists' cafes of Milan. He studied painting at Academia di Brera in Milan from 1945 through 1948. He was the founder with Sergio Dangelo of the "Nuclear Art Movement" in Milan in 1951 and founder with Asger Jorn of an international movement for an imaginary Bauhaus i...

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