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 ANGELO MORBELLI(Alessandria 1853 - Milan 1919)
After a training at the Brera Academy, Morbelli moved toward Lombard naturalist tendencies. In his first paintings he combined atmospheric observation, freedom of touch and social analysis. Starting from 1890 he experimented with the divisionist technique, soon becoming its strictest interpreter in Italy. His predilection for ''Verist'' subjects was not however contradicted by the adoption of a more refined pictorial style. Morbelli drew inspiration from observing the world of work and poverty, urban isolation and emotional solitude encountered in the modern industrial metropolis, especially by the elderly - especially touching are his representations of the ''old men'' in the Pio Albergo Trivulzio hospice. His last years of activity saw a progressive detachment from the civil tension of his most famous compositions and a turn toward landscape painting, for which he made photographic studies.
(From "Italian Art" Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).
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