Gabriele Mucchi

He also started working as an illustrator collaborating with writers such as Achille Campanile (Ma che cos’è questo amore, 1927) and Cesare Zavattini (Parliamo tanto di me, 1931, and I poveri sono matti, 1937).

An intellectual with anti-Fascist ideas, Mucchi was a sympathiser of the Corrente di Vita movement.

In 1943, at the outbreak of the Italian Civil War he joined the Val d'Ossola partisans by enrolling in the 186ª Brigata Garibaldi.

At the end of World War II he returned to Milan and started working in a Realist style.

In 1956 he was invited to teach painting at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, where he spent a long time during the following years.