Beppe Ciardi was an Italian painter.

Biography

The son of the painter Guglielmo

Guglielmo Ciardi

Guglielmo Ciardi was an Italian painter.-Biography:The son of an official of the Austrian government, Ciardi enrolled in 1861 at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied perspective with Federico Moja and landscape and seascape with Domenico Bresolin, taking over the latter’s teaching...

, Beppe Ciardi was also his pupil at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts from 1896. He graduated in 1899 and his participation in the Venice Biennale began the same year with the Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, where his work continued to be exhibited in later years and was featured in a solo show in 1912. The author of landscapes characterised by a symbolic interpretation of nature that won the esteem of critics, he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in Milan

Milan

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 (1900), a gold medal in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 (1901) and a silver medal in San Francisco (1904). His work drew inspiration in later decades from everyday life in Venice

Venice

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and the countryside around Treviso. He died in the family villa at Quinto di Treviso in 1932.