Painter and engraver

Between 1921 and 1929, Alberto Ziveri (Rome 1908-1990)  attended artistic high school and evening school in ornamental arts at San Giacomo where he studied with Calcagnadoro.

He learned his craft at the workshop of Giulio Bargellini, an Art Nouveau fresco artist. Here he befriended Guglielmo Janni (great-grandson of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli), a highly cultured, sophisticated painter. Janni encouraged him on the path of painting. 

Early Years 1929-1933

Between 1929 and 1930, he stayed around Parma, where he studied Mantegna, Parmigianino, and Correggio, and he went to Milan to do his military service in the infantry.

In 1931, he attended the Scuola Libera del Nudo (Free School of the Nude). He met the young sculptor Pericle Fazzini, who became his closest friend.

 

Alberto Ziveri at the Sabatello Gallery

In the early 1930s, he was part of the new artistic generation along with Corrado Cagli, Renato Guttuso, Fazzini, and Afro and Mirko Basaldella who gravitated around the Sabatello Gallery by Dario Sabatello in Via del Babuino, where he was often featured. 

From then on, he took part in all the major exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

In October 1933, Quadrante published four of his drawings and focused an entire issue on him.

Exhibitions

In 1935, at the 2nd Quadriennial he showed alongside the exponents of the Tonalism movement, Giuseppe Capogrossi and Emanuele Cavalli. Art critics mentioned him as one of the exhibition’s revelations. 

Alberto Ziveri in 1936, he had a solo show at the Galleria della Cometa, and in 1937 and 1938 he showed in Holland, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.

In 1939, he made his debut in Realism at the 21st Venice Biennale. 

As he declared in his writings, from then on, Realism was his maxim. 

In 1943, he won the third prize at the opening of the 4th Quadrennial, and then he was recalled to military service. In 1946, he held his first solo show at Galleria di Roma with his new work. He also presented a substantial set of engravings, a technique that he had been cultivating since 1926.

At the 1956 Biennale, Longhi dubbed him the greatest living Italian Realist. 

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