Nationality Italian | Known for Painting | |
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Born 1 February 1901 ( 1901-02-01 ) Barberino Val d'Elsa Died 2 March 1980, Florence, Italy | ||
Ugo Capocchini was an important artist in the Italian Novecento.
From Barberino Val d'Elsa he moved to Florence where he attended Liceo artistico and later the Accademia delle Belle Arti and the school of nude of the Circolo degli Artisti where he meets and knows in Pietro Annigoni.
In 1928 won the Panerai Award for his work "Nudo" at the Gallery of modern art of Firenze.
The years 30 and 40 of the twentieth century attended with the artists and writers of the time at the Caffè Giubbe Rosse.
In 1940 he was invited to the XXII important solo exhibitions in the 1950 Venice Biennale.
The main exhibition: in 1950 solo exhibition in the Strozzina in Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, in 1961 solo exhibition at Gallery Vantaggio in Rome, in 1968 the solo exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
In 1951 he received the Premio Michetti in Francavilla a Mare, in 1954 the Premio Marzotto Valdagno and in 1955 the Fiorino d'Oro of Firenze.
He was in the years 60 of the twentieth century Professor at Accademia delle belle Arti of Florence.
Nel 2001 on the occasion of the centenary of the birth Comune of Barberino Val d'Elsa dedicated a retrospective.
Barberino Val d'Elsa his place of birth dedicated a square and a community hall.