Gabriele Gabrielli's works reunited in one room at the Fattori Museum

The Fattori Museum is temporarily exhibiting in the Red Room the five works of Leghorn painter Gabriele Gabrielli (Leghorn, 1895 - 1919) in the civic collections. He was an artist of great interest but with a tormented and restless life, which he did not fail to translate into his macabre, haunted and eccentric paintings. Belgian artist Charles Doudelet called his painting “mediumistic,” as it was capable of evoking nightmares and ominous omens.

Visitors will thus have the opportunity to admire On the Deathbed (1915 - 1917), The Ride of Death (1915 - 1917), Night Hospital - Agony (1914 - 1919), The Flowers of Evil (1918 - 1919), and Night Landscape (1918 - 1919).

“Gabriele Gabrielli had been painting for only four years. And his was a sudden revelation. He did not come from any school and entered art without any technical preparation. He confessed this himself. He was indeed proud of it.” Thus noted, on December 18, 1919, an anonymous journalist from the Telegraph announcing Gabriele Gabrielli’s death at only twenty-five years of age: his career lasted only a few years. Gabrielli, a painter with a restless soul, had in fact decided to end his life with a gunshot. An avid reader of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire (from whom he drew the inspiration for his work exhibited here Flowers of Evil), his macabre painting and esoteric themes were strongly influenced by Vittore Grubicy De Dragon and Charles Doudelet, painters sensitive to Nordic and Symbolist influences who often passed through the city.

The Leghorn painter’s artistic experience did not fail to attract the attention of his contemporaries, but his early disappearance and a rather restrained production limited his critical fortune, and only in recent times have a few scattered contributions attempted to enhance his unconventional but certainly interesting research.

You can read at this link our article dedicated to Gabriele Gabrielli.

The exhibit can be visited during the opening hours of the Fattori Museum.

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.

Gabriele Gabrielli's works reunited in one room at the Fattori Museum

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