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Filippo De Pisis (1896-19569) His artistic career saw him born first and foremost as a poet and novelist, and he felt like this throughout his life. After having attended the university and the Bolognese environment, in 1917, he met the fathers of the Metaphysics movement in Ferrara: De Chirico, Savinio and Carrà. Read the full biography

Filippo De Pisis Biography

Filippo De Pisis (1896-19569) His artistic career saw him born first and foremost as a poet and novelist, and he felt like this throughout his life. After having attended the university and the Bolognese environment, in 1917, he met the fathers of the Metaphysics movement in Ferrara: De Chirico, Savinio and Carrà. In 1920 he moved to Rome and here he made the decision to become a painter. The move to Paris in 1925 marked the turning point in his pictorial career, thanks also to the study of the great French nineteenth-century artists, impressionists and contemporaries. In Paris he paints "en plein air" splendid animated city views pulsating with life, he portrays models in his studio, he records in his inimitable still lifes the emotions that the most disparate objects transmit to him. At the outbreak of the Second War he returned to Italy, where he worked in Milan in the studio in via Rugabella, and first in Venice in Campo San Barnaba and then on the San Sebastiano canal. The years starting from 1948 are marked by the advance of the disease which in moments of respite, even in the clinics where he will be hospitalized, gives life to further pieces of pictorial poetry of the highest level. He dies in Milan.