Giovanni Colmo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian painter (1867-1947)
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Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
About Giovanni Colmo
- Giovanni Colmo (1867 – 1947) was an Italian painter, active mainly as a landscape painter. Giovanni was born in Turin; he first studied engineering but gravitated to painting without a formal education.
- He was an older brother of Eugenio Colmo, known as Golia, a noted cartoonist, caricaturist and watercolorist.
- Giovanni lived for many years in Garessio.
- He was part of the outdoor school of landscape painters called the School of Rivara.
- This latter group painted outdoors on scene, and were interested in capturing seasons, times, and weather.
- Among his colleagues in painting mainly the Piedmontese alpine valleys, were Anselmo Sacerdote, Vittorio Cavalleri and Carlo Pollonera.
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