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Painting

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From 1972 to 1973 Bianconi attended the C.S.I.A. Art School in Lugano

Lugano

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. He received private instruction in painting and design with Leo Maillet, a master pupil of Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann

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, in 1982, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg

Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg

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from 1988 to 1995. From 1995 to 1999 he taught life drawing at AdBK Nuremberg. In 2001 he created the Chalkografi Research Lab.

Bianconi is a member of the Schwabach Artists' Federation.

Prizes and awards

• 1989–1991 Scholarship holder of the Dipartimento Istruzione e Cultura, Canton Tessin, Switzerland
• 1991 Danner-Stiftung Group prize
• 1998 Hollfeld painting prize