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Moses Levy BIOGRAPHY
1885 Tunis, Italy - 1968 Viareggio, Italy. Known for: Modernist figure, genre and street scene painting.
Moses Levy spent his first years of study at an Italian school in Tunis, after which the Levy family moved to Italy due to his mother's frail health. In 1900, Levy enrolled in the Lucca Institute of... Read full biography
Moses Levy spent his first years of study at an Italian school in Tunis, after which the Levy family moved to Italy due to his mother's frail health. In 1900, Levy enrolled in the Lucca Institute of Art, where Lorenzo Viani was one of his classmates. In Florence, they were often to be found... Read full biography
Moses Levy spent his first years of study at an Italian school in Tunis, after which the Levy family moved to Italy due to his mother's frail health. In 1900, Levy enrolled in the Lucca Institute of Art, where Lorenzo Viani was one of his classmates. In Florence, they were often to be found together at the Academy of Fine Arts and Giovanni Fattori's School for Drawing Nudes. In 1907, Moses was invited to the Venice Biennial, to which he brought a number of engravings. During this period he... Read full biography
Moses Levy spent his first years of study at an Italian school in Tunis, after which the Levy family moved to Italy due to his mother's frail health. In 1900, Levy enrolled in the Lucca Institute of Art, where Lorenzo Viani was one of his classmates. In Florence, they were often to be found together at the Academy of Fine Arts and Giovanni Fattori's School for Drawing Nudes. In 1907, Moses was invited to the Venice Biennial, to which he brought a number of engravings. During this period he concentrated on drawing, and his style shows the influence of his teacher Fattori. While his family settled down in Rigoli, in the province of Pisa, Moses often returned to Tunis. There he painted subjects taken from the local culture, although he never... Read full biography
Moses Levy spent his first years of study at an Italian school in Tunis, after which the Levy family moved to Italy due to his mother's frail health. In 1900, Levy enrolled in the Lucca Institute of Art, where Lorenzo Viani was one of his classmates. In Florence, they were often to be found together at the Academy of Fine Arts and Giovanni Fattori's School for Drawing Nudes. In 1907, Moses was invited to the Venice Biennial, to which he brought a number of engravings. During this period he concentrated on drawing, and his style shows the influence of his teacher Fattori. While his family settled down in Rigoli, in the province of Pisa, Moses often returned to Tunis. There he painted subjects taken from the local culture, although he never forgot his Tuscan training. In 1911, he held his first solo show at the Tunis Chamber of Commerc... Read full biography
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Moses Levy spent his first years of study at an Italian school in Tunis, after which the Levy family moved to Italy due to his mother's frail health. In 1900, Levy enrolled in the Lucca Institute of Art, where Lorenzo Viani was one of his classmates. In Florence, they were often to be found together at the Academy of Fine Arts and Giovanni Fattori's School for Drawing Nudes.
In 1907, Moses was invited to the Venice Biennial, to which he brought a number of engravings. During this period he concentrated on drawing, and his style shows the influence of his teacher Fattori. While his family settled down in Rigoli, in the province of Pisa, Moses often returned to Tunis. There he painted subject...But wait, there's more...
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