Giorgio Morandi - about the artist

Hear more about Morandi from Director Bo Nilsson, our intern Chiara Lugli who mastered in art history about Morandi and Giusi Vecchi from Istituzione Bologna Musei, Museo Morandi. Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) is one of the great protagonists of modern Italian art. Morandi has assumed cult status, especially within circles of art connoisseurs, and has been called an “artist of artists”. Morandi led a still and routine bound life. He rarely left his hometown Bologna, where he lived most of his life with his mother and three sisters. Morandi was also a Professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. His motifs are likewise recurring – where similar still lifes and landscapes constitute the vast majority of his oeuvre, well over a thousand oil paintings in total.