Giuseppe Graziosi

Giuseppe Graziosi (Savignano sul Panaro, January 25, 1879 - Florence, July 2, 1942) was an Italian sculptor, painter and graphic designer.

On September 30 he was commemorated in Maranello (Modena) by friends, colleagues and authorities including Ardengo Soffici, Felice Carena, who pronounced the eulogy, Baccio Maria Bacci, Francesco Messina, Luciano Minguzzi and Italo Griselli.

In 1898 he finished his last year of apprenticeship with the statue from life, Il figlio della gleba (The son of the serfs), which was presented and praised at the National Exhibition of Turin.

At that time Giovanni Fattori taught painting in the women's section and his studio was likely a resort for Graziosi and his companions, among them the writer and painter Ardengo Soffici.

In the city he works for a German client and collaborates with the sculptor Salesio Lugli from Carpi, a fellow student at the Institute of Fine Arts in Modena.

Graziosi, who in 1904 had resumed lessons at the Free School of Nude, won the competition "Baruzzi" of Bologna for two editions: in 1904 with the sculpture All work and in 1908 with the painting Malocchio.

From May 24, 1915, to the end of 1918 Graziosi enlisted in the army during the First World War and served, as a draftsman, at the Directorate of the III Regiment Genio-Specialist Photographers.

[6] The gallery of plaster casts was founded in Modena in 1984 following the donation by the heirs of a large collection of plastic, pictorial and graphic works by the artist Giuseppe Graziosi.