Umberto Lilloni 1898-1980

Umberto Lilloni (Milan, 1898–1980) was an Italian painter and a leading figure of Chiarismo Lombardo, a movement characterized by luminous color, tonal delicacy, and a poetic approach to figuration. Trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Lilloni developed a personal language focused on light and atmosphere, expressed through landscapes, still lifes, and figurative compositions.
Active from the late 1920s onward, he exhibited widely in major Italian exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, and played an important role as an educator, teaching at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Parma for many years. His work is distinguished by a refined sensitivity to color and an intimate, lyrical vision of reality.
Today, Lilloni is recognized as one of the key exponents of early 20th-century Italian painting, whose research contributed significantly to the development of poetic realism in modern Italian art.