Renzo Vespignani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Renzo Vespignani

Italian painter, engraver and writer

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1924

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Date of Death: 26-Apr-2001

Profession: writer, illustrator, painter, printmaker

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Renzo Vespignani (1924 - 26 April 2001) was an Italian painter, printmaker and illustrator. Vespignani illustrated the works of Boccaccio, Kafka and T.
S.
Eliot, among others.
In 1956, he co-founded the magazine Citta Aperta ("City Opened") and in 1963, co-founded the group II Pro e II Contro (Pro and Con) for neorealism in figure art.



Description	Italian photographer In 2008 his works have been bought by BEIC - Biblioteca Europea d'Informazione e Cultura (European Library for Information and Culture) of Milan. The whole amount of Paolo Monti's works consists of more than 220,000 photographic negatives, 12,000+ prints and 790 chemigrams that describe the story, society and culture of Italy from 1943 to 1982.
Date of birth/death	11 August 1908	29 November 1982
Location of birth/death	Novara	Milan
Authority control	: Q18169099 VIAF: 69014350 ISNI: 0000 0001 1827 5967 ULAN: 500034693 LCCN: n80066866 GND: 119177501 WorldCat