Ermanno Zago

He trained at the Cignaroli Academy of Verona and later became a pupil of A. Dall’Oca Bianca, under whose influence he began to portray aspects of daily life and popular figures. He started his career in 1900 in Verona with some real studies, and in the early ‘900s he moved to Milan, where he was active in the Academy of Brera. In 1906 he began to exhibit at exhibitions in Milan (May, Spring Clouds). In addition to landscapes, he concentrated himself in pastel portrait. In 1923, King Vittorio Emanuele III buys a painting, The pond of the Public Gardens in Milan, destined to the art collections of the Quirinal. In 1924 he was elected honorary member of the Academy of Brera, a Diploma which selected him among some of the great artists of the period, an extraordinary leap in quality that gives him the authorization to teach at the Academy. This isthe highest point of his career, an extraordinary revival of his work as a painter. To understand how he organized his own business, in a small register dated 1934-1942, Erma lists both purchased materials; plaster, paints, brushes, white lead, wrapping paper, films etc, indicating the relative costs, and the movement of money: documenting how the sale of the paintings were distributed throughout Italy. The cities with the highest yield of sending out were Rome, Genoa, Venice, but also to Livorno, Naples and Trieste, touching even Bolzano, Biella, Udine and other Italian centers.

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