Augusto Sezanne [SEP] date of death
Augusto Sezanne
Augusto Sezanne (Firenze, 31 August 1856 - Venice, 5 May 1935) was an Italian painter, active in a Naturalist style of landscape painting. He also worked as engraver, ceramist, and even as architect.
Biography.
He completed his studies at the Academy of Bologna, and was resident in that city till 1893. He trained under Gaetano Lodi. He became professor of decoration at that Academy. He reproduced the form and aspects of a person or thing with great exactitude. His first
he traveled to Cairo in Egypt to paint for the Khedive and other commissions. This allowed him to paint the Sala Egizia of the Palazzo Sanguinetti.
Among his pupils are Edoardo Breveglieri, Alfredo Tartarini, and Augusto Sezanne. In 1881 he painted the atrium of the theater in Crevalcore. In this period he became artistic director of the Società Cooperativa delle Ceramiche d'Imola.