Franco Rognoni - Artist Info

About Franco Rognoni

  • Biography from Accademia Fine Art

    Franco Rognoni was an Italian painter born in Milan. He was essentially self-taught but attended evening classes at the Castello Sforzesco School of Art. In 1938, Rognoni began publishing drawings in the Revue du Peuple d'Italie and organized his first solo exhibition at the Piccola Mostra Gallery. Critics noted Franco Rognoni's influences from Grosz, Chagall, and Ernst, and described his work as having a "particular sadness."

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