Mario Comensoli (1922-1993) Swiss painter Mario Comensoli was born 1922 in Lugano. He was educated autodidactically at first, and subsequently received a scholarship at the Fondazione Torricelli, which enabled him to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the ETH Zurich. His first painting was purchased by the Museo Civico in Lugano. In the late 1940s Comensoli spent some time in Paris, where he made acquaintance with Alberto Giacometti, Serge Poliakoff, Miró and André Fougeron. He further held numerous exhibitions, among others at the Helmhaus Zurich, the Museo Civico Lugano, the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Kunstverein St. Gallen as well as the Galleria S. Lucia, Rome and others.

Mario Comensoli is a Swiss artist who grew up in an orphanage in Lugano before being taken in by two women. He studied art in Zurich with the help of scholarships and spent time in Paris where he met artists like Joan Miró and the Giacometti brothers. Comensoli's work evolved from socially critical themes to incorporating influences from American Pop Art and urban subcultures like punks and skinheads. He is known for his monumental imagery and mural paintings, and despite early criticism, he is now recognized as an important Swiss realist artist.