Pio Joris - Artist Info

About Pio Joris

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  • Biography from Galerie Bassenge, Berlin

    Pio Joris lived from 1843 to 1921. He was a painter and graphic artist. Joris studied at the age of twelve in 1855 at the Istituto di Belle Arti and at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

    In 1866 he was a student of Achille Vertunni. Joris joined the circle around Marian Fortuny Marsal, with whom he took an inspirational trip to Spain in 1871/1872. From 1868 to 1875 Pio traveled extensively throughout Europe. In numerous national and international exhibitions Joris won several gold medals.
  • Biography from Accademia Fine Art

    Italian painter, watercolorist and printmaker disciple and close friend of Mariano Fortuny, Joris received academic training under Edoardo Pastina, a landscape painter from Naples and Achille Vertunni with whom he traveled.

    Reputed to be one of the best Roman painters of the late 19th century with a style that combines authentic realism and a soft, glittering touch, he mainly painted scenes of the emerging bourgeoisie but also some historical subjects such as the escape of Pope Eugene IV, preserved in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.

    Influenced by the French impressionist world, he made many trips to Paris, having a relationship with the art dealer Adolphe Goupil from 1868 to 1875.

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