Anselmo Bucci
Anselmo Bucci was born in Fossombrone (Pesaro) in 1887. He attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts for a year, then moved to Paris to study Impressionist painting, exhibiting one of his pictures at the Salon at the age of twenty. This was the start of a prolific artist career which saw his participation in all the major exhibitions in Italy, France, Belgium, Holland and England.
He was a founder member of the Novecento group along with Dudreville, Malerba, Oppi, Marussig, Sironi and Funi. Initially influenced by French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, his painting later took on a greater severity and realism. For many years he also developed his talent in engraving, working for the major Parisian publishers and in 1914 winning a silver medal at the Exhibition of Engravings in Florence. He was also a writer and art critic.
Fifteen of his war paintings (he fought as a volunteer) are at the Ministry of the Navy in Rome. Other works are in the Tokyo Museum, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, in museums in Turin and Genoa, and in the picture gallery of the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan.
He died in Monza in 1955.
