Federico Zandomeneghi

Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917)

Federico Zandomeneghi , born on June 2 , 1841 in Venice and died on December 31 , 1917 in Paris , is an Italian impressionist painter .

Federico Zandomeneghi, whose father and grandfather were sculptors , was born in Venice and enrolled at the Venice Academy in 1856 . In 1860 , a supporter of Garibaldi , his political convictions required a visit to Florence where he met a number of artists known as Macchiaioli ( Telemaco Signorini , Giovanni Fattori and Giuseppe Abbati ). He joins them in landscape painting on the grounds . Painting outside the studio, "outdoors", is, at this time, an innovative approach, to bring liveliness and spontaneity in the rendering of light.

In 1874 , Zandomeneghi went to Paris - where he spent the rest of his life - and met the Impressionists who had just made their first group exhibition. Zandomeneghi, whose style of painting is similar to theirs, will participate in four of their exhibitions ( 1879 , 1880 , 1881 and 1886 ). He is a friend of Edgar Degas . To supplement the meager income earned from the sale of his paintings, he finds work in the illustration of fashion magazines.

In the early 1890s , he started in pastel , where he became particularly skilled. The art dealer Durand-Ruel presents his paintings in the United States , since his fame allows him to enjoy a certain ease, until his death in Paris in 1917 .