Carlo Servolini

Carlo Servolini (5 April 1876 – 12 September 1948) was an Italian artist from Livorno, in Tuscany. He worked in oils, water-colour, etching and lithography. He was the father of the wood engraver Luigi Servolini [it].^[1]

Carlo Servolini
Born	(1876-04-05)5 April 1876 Livorno, Kingdom of Italy
Died	12 September 1948(1948-09-12) (aged 72) Collesalvetti, Italian Republic
Nationality	Italian
Education	Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

Servolini was born in Livorno on 5 April 1876.^[2] He studied in Florence at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and at the Scuola Professionale di Arti Decorative e Industriali (now the Liceo Artistico di Porta Romana [it]), where he qualified as a teacher of drawing.^[3]: 146 He received help and advice from Guglielmo Micheli, a pupil of Giovanni Fattori, but did not become an imitator of the Macchiaiolo style.^[2]

He exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia in 1936, 1940 and 1942; his work was shown in Argentina, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.^[1]

Servolini died at Collesalvetti, in the province of Livorno, on 12 September 1948.^[2] In 2006, the comune of Collesalvetti established the Pinacoteca Comunale Carlo Servolini, a public gallery which houses works by Servolini and his Tuscan contemporaries, and also stages temporary exhibitions.^[4][5]