SCARPA CROCE LUIGI

Luigi Scarpa Croce was born on 26/08/1901 in Venice where ivi died on 09/01/1967. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1923, after studying under the guidance of Ettore Tito.
Around the years 1925/26 he has participated in exhibitions of Ca Pesaro and the International Art Biennale in Venice, where he also exhibited in the following years until 1950 in an alternating way.
In 1930 he was named as artistic consultant to The Quadrennial Rome. It was extensive his activities in the field of Murano glass, as designer and technician from 1940 to 1942 and then between 1950 and 1956. He exhibited almost all of the collective Bevilacqua La Masa from 1926 to 1957.
Paolo Rizzi wrote: "…. less advanced perhaps than the others from the point of view of audacity language, however, he was an extraordinary punctuality coach - expressive. He was a real painter. His best things go looking for the interior and figures than in the lagoon view, in this sense he was less of impressionism, writing with a generic term, than his friends…."