Matteo Olivero
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Matteo Pietro Olivero (Pratorotondo, Acceglio, 15 giugno 1879 - Saluzzo, 28 aprile 1932[1]) was an italian painter, known for his technique of reproducing sunlight reflections without physically mixing colour pigments. For that matter he is considered a leadingpainter of the italian divisionism, although he's still little-known outside art collector's environment[2]. In 1896 Matteo Olivero attended the Accademia Arti delle Belle Arti in Turin. During his life he took part of several exhibitions across Europe and started a collaboration with "Les Tendances Nouvelles" a parisian art journal.
Matteo Olivero, after a visit to a St. Moritz exhibition, became close friend with the painter Giovanni Segantini, with whom he started a correspondence and then a collaboration[2].
Fatherless since early childhood, he became very close to his mother, Lucia Rosano, that he considered inspirational for his paintings. The 27th of march 1930 his mother died at the age of 86. Suddenly he fall into a deep depressive crisis. A local businessman, Luigi Burgo, owner of a paper mill, take him under his custody, hosting him in his depandance house, becoming, in fact, his patron[3].
In the 28th of april 1932, he died suicide by throwing himself out of a window.
Many of his works are exposed at the "Pinacoteca Matteo Olivero" in Saluzzo.
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Matteo Olivero, A street in Cairo.
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- ^ a b "Comune di Acceglio | Matteo Olivero | Convegno Matteo Olivero". www.comune.acceglio.cn.it. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
- ^ "Comune di Acceglio | Matteo Olivero | Opere e biografia". www.comune.acceglio.cn.it. Retrieved 2017-11-13.