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Pío Collivadino

Pío Collivadino (1869-1945) was an Argentine painter of the Post-Impressionist schools born in Buenos Aires, in 1869. He studied drawing at the Italian Argentine cultural society, the Societá Nazionale de Buenos Aires, and in 1889, he studied at the Accademia di San Luca, the National Acadey of Fine Arts. He returned to Argentina in 1896 and became known for his romanticist lithographs. Colllivadino attended after 1903 several international festivals in Venice and St. Louis, where he earned silver and a gold medals. These successes encouraged him to transition to Post-impressionism. He was honored with the Order of the Crown of Italy in 1905. Collivadino remained sought-after in Argentina. He was the director of the Pueyrredón School until 1944, when he was forced to retire by the new military regime of General Pedro Pablo Ramírez (a dictatorship whose cultural policy was hostile to European influences, in favor of what it described as "criollo virtues"). He died in Buenos Aires at age 76.

November 18th 2024

 

 
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