(Innsbruck 1894 - Rome 1965)
A VIEW OF VENICE (Punta della Dogana), 1914
Etching. Dated and signed in the plate bottom right 14 RB. Numbered, signed and dated in pencil at the bottom margin 7/30 R Baldessari 14. A fine impression, printed working on the surface tone, on wove paper. Generally in very good condition, but the pressure of the press in printing broke the sheet on three sides and two margins, the upper and the right, were restored. To the platemark 446 x 332 mm, the entire sheet measuring 523 x 378 mm.
Baldessari studied at the Accademia in Venice under Guglielmo Ciardi for painting and under Emanuele Brugnoli for printmaking. In 1914 he moved to Florence, where he joined the futurist group, which included Ottone Rosai, Ardengo Soffici and Primo Conti. In those same years a trip to Milan allowed him to make the acquaintance of Marinetti and other Lombard futurists. Around 1920 he began to travel in Europe, coming in touch with Liebermann, Archipenko, Kurt Schwitters, Vordemberge-Gildewart and Justus Bier. Baldessari returned to Italy in 1925, bringing his art closer to the figurative and beginning an intense period of exhibitions, both at home and abroad, during which the artist practiced assiduously painting, printmaking and, since the thirties, the fresco decoration. In 1940 Baldessari moved to Rovereto where he joined the local group of Der Blaue Reiter and the Associazione degli Incisori Veneziani.
