Quadro de alfredo volpi biography

Brazilian painter (1896–1988)

Alfredo Volpi (April 14, 1896 – May 28, 1988), was a prominent painter of the artistic and cultural Brazilianmodernist movement.^[1][2] He was born in Lucca, Italy but, less than two years later, he was brought by his parents to São Paulo, Brazil, became a Brazilian citizen, and lived there for the majority of his life.^[3] He was one of the most important artists of the so-called Grupo Santa Helena, formed in the 1930s with Francisco Rebolo, Clóvis Graciano, Mario Zanini, Fulvio Pennacchi, and others.^[4]

Early period

Volpi was a self-taught painter, producing his first naturalist painting in 1914 at the age of twelve.^&#