Tasso Marchini

Tasso Marchini (22 June 1907, Belgrade – 19 October 1936, Arco di Trento) was a Modernist painter of mixed parentage, who spent most of his short life in Romania.

He was born in Belgrade, capital of the Kingdom of Serbia, to an Italian father and Serbian mother and became separated from his parents during the chaos of World War I.

His movements over the next few years are unclear, but in the early 1920s, he appears in Transylvania, where he began his artistic studies at the School of Fine Arts in Cluj.

[1] Being poor, he could not afford to pay the models' fees, so he practiced by making portraits of his fellow students and teachers.

[1] From 1930 to 1932, despite the strains caused by his poor health, he and Traian Bilțiu-Dăncuș (1899–1975) worked on decorating the Church of the Assumption in Sighetu Marmației.