Spilimbergo, Adriano

(1908 - 1975)

Adriano Spilimbergo was an Argentine-born Italian artist. He was trained at the Brera Academy in Milan and he held his first solo show at the Bardi gallery in 1930. Apart from autonomous pieces, he also painted murals for the Bocconi University and private Milanese houses. He was part of the Chiarismo movement; artists who worked on a painting with light colors and a light sign, going back to the roots of Lombard painting.