Giuseppe Drugman
Giuseppe Drugman (27 April 1810 – 1 October 1846) was an Italian landscape and cityscape painter.
Biography
He was born in Parma, where his father was a carpenter and woodcarver at the Ducal Court. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Parma, where he studied with the landscape painter, Giuseppe Boccaccio.[1] During the uprisings of 1831, he and his brother Massimo were suspected of belonging to the Carbonari, but were eventually cleared.[1] In 1835, he participated in a competition for young artists sponsored by Duchess Maria Luigia. The first prize was eighteen months to study in Rome. He was awarded the prize in the landscape category for his painting of a deer hunt.
He went to Rome in 1837 and began sending his canvases home; notably scenes of Tiber Island and the Colosseum, done in a style reminiscent of Claude Lorrain. Towards the end of his stay, he spent some time in Albano.
He returned to Parma in the summer of 1838, was married, and began executing commissions for the Court, including views of the Palazzo del Giardino and several vedute of Parma. He also substituted for Boccaccio as a landscape teacher at the Academy whenever the latter visited Naples.[1] In 1841, he was especially busy with commissions, doing canvases of the Ducal Palace of Colorno, a new road from Parma to La Spezia and a new bridge over the Sporzana.
In 1844 he and two other local artists were engaged to paint scenes from the operas I Lombardi and Maria di Rohan at the Teatro Regio.[1] Two years later, after several more projects for the Court, he died in Parma of tuberculosis, aged only thirty-six.
In 2014, a retrospective of his works was held at the Museo Glauco Lombardi.[2] A small street in Parma is named after him.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Brief biography @ Treccani.
- ↑ Article from the Gazzetta di Parma.
External links
Media related to Giuseppe Drugman at Wikimedia Commons