Mario Tozzi
Mario Tozzi was born in Fossombrone near Urbino in 1895. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Suna on Lake Maggiore, where his father was the district municipal doctor.
He began to study chemistry at the Cobianchi Institute in Intra, but broke off his studies there to enrol in the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. He finished his course there in 1915, winning a prize awarded by the Ministry of Education.
After fighting as a volunteer in the First World War, he met his future wife, Marie-Thérèse, on Lake Maggiore; she was from Paris, where they settled and he started his career as an artist. In Paris in 1920 he exhibited work at the Salon des Indipendants, attracting favourable reviews. From then on he also took part regularly and with increasing success in the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Tuileries.
From 1920 he began to spend summer vacations in his wife’s house in Lignorelles in Bourgogne. In Italy he held his first personal exhibition in 1923 in Pallanza, and was later to be invited to the Venice Bienniali, to the exhibitions of the Novecento italiano and the Quadriennali in Rome. In 1926 he founded in Paris the “Group de sept” (Group of seven), gathering around him the major Italian artists living in the city: Campigli, De Pisis, De Chirico, Savinio, Paresce and Severini.
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