// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Ettore Castaldi? A cast-ally good guy.
Ettore Castaldi (16 December 1877 – 16 August 1956) was an Italian painter, painting mainly outdoor landscapes.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Livorno; orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his uncle and put to manual work in the port. This rough environment failed to lessen his vocation for art, encouraged by his encounters with the Labronico painters, including Corrado Michelozzi and Adriano Baracchini Caputi, at the Caffè Bardi.
He made many frescoes in the churches of the Garfagnana. In 1920 signed the Declaration of Tribute to Puccini, published by the Artistic Livorno after the split which gave rise to the establishment of Gruppo Labronico.[1]
As an anarchist sympathiser, in 1924, he went into exile in Santos, Brazil. He remained in touch with family, friends, and painters of Livorno, but spent the war in Brazil, and chose not to return to Italy. He died in Santos, Brazil, on 16 August 1956.[2]
In 2013, a portrait of Castaldi painted by Corrado Michelozzi was donated to the Pinacoteca Carlo Servolini.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Past members of Gruppo Labronico.
- ↑ G. Magonzi in Catalogo il Caffè Bardi di Livorno (1909–1921) Le arti all' incontro[dead link], a cura di G. Magonzi e M. Pierleoni, Galleria d'Arte Athena, Livorno, 20 settembre – 15 Novembre 2008.
- ↑ "IL RITRATTO DI ETTORE CASTALDI DI MICHELOZZI DONATO ALLA PINACOTECA". Collenews (in Italian). 27 September 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- 1877 births
- 1956 deaths
- 19th-century Italian painters
- 20th-century Italian painters
- Painters from Livorno
- 20th-century Brazilian painters
- Brazilian male painters
- 20th-century Brazilian male artists
- Italian landscape painters
- Italian emigrants to Brazil
- Gruppo Labronico
- 19th-century Italian male painters
- 20th-century Italian male painters
- Italian painter, 19th-century birth stubs