GIUSEPPE DE GREGORIO WORKS

Giuseppe De Gregorio was an Italian painter. He was born in 1920 in Spoleto. Despite his father being a painter and his grandfather a painting teacher at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Catania, Giuseppe De Gregorio approached painting as a self-taught artist.
Since 1947, he has participated in both group and solo exhibitions, and in 1948 he won the Premio città di Orvieto. Initially influenced by cubism, in the early fifties he embraced Informalism.
In 1953, together with Filippo Marignoli, Giannetto Orsini, Ugo Rambaldi, Piero Raspi, and Bruno Toscano, he founded the Gruppo di Spoleto or Gruppo dei Sei. In the same year, the Gruppo di Spoleto established the Premio Spoleto, aimed at promoting young artists. On this occasion, he was noticed by Bruno Sargentini of the Galleria L'Attico in Rome, who began to represent him.
Participates in the VII National Art Quadriennale of Rome in 1956, the ninth in 1966, and the eleventh in 1986. In 1964, participates in the XXXII Venice Biennale and the Fiorino Prize of Florence.
During this period, he decides to move on to the representation of details of nature, imbued with symbolic meanings. This evolution classifies him under the so-called Naturalism with the recovery and inclusion of natural subjects within the informal structure.
In 1974, he moved to Florence with his wife Rosa and daughter Daniela, while always remaining connected to his hometown.
In 1977, the Festival dei Due Mondi dedicated a personal exhibition to him, and in 1978 he created the poster for the XXI edition of the Festival. In 1986 and 1999, he created the poster for Umbria Jazz.
In 1997, he returned permanently to live in Spoleto. Giuseppe De Gregorio passed away on December 31, 2007, in his home in Spoleto.