Massimo Campigli
Exhibition Catalogue
Campigli, plaquette, text by Massimo Di Carlo
Exhibition Massimo Campigli, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, 23 November
– 23 December 1974
Plaquette
Dimensions 21 x 15 x 0,1 cm
4 col. plates
Edizioni Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, 1974
Artist
Max Ihlenfeld, later known as Massimo Campigli, was born in Berlin in 1895. After having spent his childhood in Florence, in 1909 he moved with his family to Milan, where he came into contact with Futurist groups. In the first youth he manifests literary rather than pictorial propensities; a paper of his, entitled “Giornale + Strada. Parole in libertà” was published in Lacerba in 1914. During thr first World War he felt prisoner and was deported to Hungary. In 1919 he was sent to Paris as a correspondent of the Corriere della Sera and here he began his artistic career; in the first hard years spent in the France, Campigli alternates the profession of journalist with that of painter.
