Achille Funi

Born in Ferrara in 1890, he studied decorative art and design at the Ferrara Art School. In 1906 he moved to Milan where he attended Cesare Tallone’s courses at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, coming into contact with Dudreville, Carrà, Chiattone, Bonzagni, Sant’Elia. Despite his friendship with Boccioni, Achille Funi was one of the first painters to subscribe to the founding manifesto of the “Nuove Tendenze” group. The pictures he exhibited for the occasion in 1914 already reveal the artist’s interest in a post-Cézanne plastic approach. This accounts for his subsequent convergence in, and acceptance by, the Futurist group, confirmed by the similarity of his ideas and research with those of the last period of Boccioni. In 1919 he participated in the great Futurist exhibition in Milan at the Cova gallery.
Along with Dudreville, Russolo and Sironi he signed the 1920 manifesto “Contro tutti i ritorni in pittura”.
In 1922 Funi took part in the exhibition of the founders of the group “7 twentieth-century painters” at the Pesaro Gallery. In 1926 the great “Novecento italiano” Exhibition opened in Milan at the Palazzo della Permanente.
He was subsequently active as a fresco painter and decorative artist, from 1939 holding the Chair of Decorative Art at the Brera Academy, of which he was also the Director.
He died in 1972 in a clinic in Appiano Gentile.

Painting section Ambrogio Alciati Roberto Aloi Federico Ashton Adriana Bisi Fabbri Guido Boggiani Luigi Bolongaro Anselmo Bucci Aldo Carpi Guido Cinotti Carlo Cressini Sophie Browne Leonardo Dudreville Arnaldo Ferraguti Carlo Fornara Cesare Fratino Achille Funi Eugenio Gignous Lucia Gritti Vittore Grubicy Luigi Litta Maestro Casa Morigia Maestro di San Rocco Cesare Maggi Giuseppe Palanti Siro Penagini Clemente Pugliese Levi Daniele Ranzoni Gian Maria Rastellini Guido Ricci Achille Tominetti Mario Tozzi Sculpture section Archaeology section Popular Devotion Section	Achille Funi Born in Ferrara in 1890, he studied decorative art and design at the Ferrara Art School. In 1906 he moved to Milan where he attended Cesare Tallone’s courses at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, coming into contact with Dudreville, Carrà, Chiattone, Bonzagni, Sant’Elia. Despite his friendship with Boccioni, Achille Funi was one of the first painters to subscribe to the founding manifesto of the “Nuove Tendenze” group. The pictures he exhibited for the occasion in 1914 already reveal the artist’s interest in a post-Cézanne plastic approach. This accounts for his subsequent convergence in, and acceptance by, the Futurist group, confirmed by the similarity of his ideas and research with those of the last period of Boccioni. In 1919 he participated in the great Futurist exhibition in Milan at the Cova gallery. Along with Dudreville, Russolo and Sironi he signed the 1920 manifesto “Contro tutti i ritorni in pittura”. In 1922 Funi took part in the exhibition of the founders of the group “7 twentieth-century painters” at the Pesaro Gallery. In 1926 the great “Novecento italiano” Exhibition opened in Milan at the Palazzo della Permanente. He was subsequently active as a fresco painter and decorative artist, from 1939 holding the Chair of Decorative Art at the Brera Academy, of which he was also the Director. He died in 1972 in a clinic in Appiano Gentile.	Portrait of the painter Mario Tozzi, 1929