Maceo Casadei (1899-1992) - Canale in Pineta, Cervia

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Maceo Casadei (Forlì, 1899 - 1992) was an Italian painter, considered "among the main continuers of the nineteenth-century figurative tradition in the Romagna area.

Biography

Artist from the school of Forlì, he devoted himself to painting at the painter Giovanni Marchini[2], in Forlì. When the family, for work reasons, moves to France, they can attend the Free Nude Academy of Lyon. Here he has relations with another artist from Forlì, Pietro Angelini, of whom he becomes a collaborator.

During the First World War, he was enlisted and sent to the front (he was one of the "99" Guys). In 1917, he painted the work entitled Retirata di Caporetto, today in the collections of the Cassa dei Risparmi of Forlì and Romagna.

After the war, it often moves between Lyon and Forlì. He works as a photographer and as a performer of theatre scenes, ornate and wall frieces. He adheres to the Forlivese Artistic Cenacle.

In 1934 he moved to Rome, where he lived until 1944. He immediately worked for the Luce Institute both dealing with film tricks and designing various exhibition halls. In 1937, the Ministry of National Education bought some of his works, which were then exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome [without source].

During the Second World War he worked as an envoy to the front (1941-1943), making thousands of photographs and over four hundred drawings and paintings, called War Impressions: in 1942, a selection of these works was exhibited at the Il Milione Gallery in Milan.

Between 1946 and 1947 he is in Venice. In the fifties, he returned to Forlì, where he opened a shop again. For the Church of the Holy Seven Founders, in Rome, a Church belonging to the Order of the Servants of Mary, created in 1959 the fresco The Vision of the Madonna to the Holy Seven Founders[3]. In 1968 he donated to the Art Gallery of Forlì over 150 works of various kinds: paintings, watercolours, drawings.

He died in 1992, leaving influence on painters such as Gino Mandolesi and Gianna Nardi Spada"[4].

Works on display

In Cervia, inside the Town Hall, there is a permanent exhibition of works by Maceo Casadei.

Posthumous exhibitions

Maceo Casadei (1899 - 1992) from the Tosello collection, in Cento, alla Rocca, in 2009[5]

Maceo Casadei Nature and feeling, in Fusignano, at the Civic Museum, in 2013[6].

Maceo Casadei (1899-1992). Art in the trenches, in Forlì, at Palazzo Romagnoli, from December 20, 2014 to May 31, 2015[7].