Corrado Cagli 1910-1976. Italian painter of Jewish Heritage. Together with other artists such as Giuseppe Capogrossi and Emanuele Cavalli, he formed the group "New Roman School of Painting," better known as Scuola Romana. Lived in the USA during WWII and enlisted in the US Army. He took part in the Normandy landings and also fought in Belgium and Germany. He was with the forces that liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp, and made a series of dramatic drawings on that subject.
After the war he settled in Rome where he experimented in various abstract and non-figurative techniques (neo-metaphysical, neo-cubist, informal). He was awarded the Guggenheim prize (1946) and the Marzotto prize (1954).
Cagli’s works have been exhibited in the most prominent Museums around the world, aided by the racial laws, that forced the Jewish author to wander abroad in between honours and awards. All his exhibitions had limited edition catalogues, always event-specific.
These wonderful prints from this First Edition catalogue dated 1969 made specifically for the Roman Gallery La Pesaare, are typical of his works.
