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Leonardo Leoncillo

Leonardo Leoncillo (1915 - 1968) was active/lived in Italy.  Leonardo Leoncillo is known for Abstract figurative sculpture, ceramics, abstract painting.

Leoncillo Leonardi (18 November 1915 – 3 September 1968), commonly known as Leoncillo, was an Italian sculptor who worked principally in glazed ceramics, often large-scale, and often using vivid colours. Until the mid-1950s his work was mostly figurative, but became more abstract thereafter. In 1946 he was among the founding members of the Nuova Secessione Artistica Italiana, which soon became the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti. He received the Premio Faenza in 1954 and again in 1964, and won the sculpture prize at the Biennale di Venezia of 1968.

Leonardi was born on 18 November 1915 in Spoleto, in Umbria in central Italy, to Fernando Leonardi and Giuseppina Magni. One of his grandfathers was a cabinet-maker, the other a maker of musical instruments, and his father taught draughtsmanship at the Istituto Tecnico of Spoleto. In 1926 Leonardi started at the same school. From 1931 to 1935 he studied at the Istituto d'Arte of Perugia, in northern Umbria.

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