Anton Maria Mucchi (1871-1945). Le inquietudini di un artista intellettuale. Dalla pittura al museo della Città di Salò

[Autom. eng. transl.] The figure of Anton Maria Mucchi is one of those difficult to contain, from the point of view of the critical approach. Originally from Fontanellato, in the province of Parma, the artist - after training at the Albertina Academy in Turin - spends most of his life on the shores of Lake Garda, first occasionally and, especially starting from the 1920s, with a continuity that is interrupted only by his death in 1945. The marriage with Lucia Caterina dei Conti Tracagni di Salò represents the most solid hook, a safe landing that allows him to develop a certain family serenity but, above all, to enhance his attitudes as a historian and critic of art. So much so that the patrimonial endowment of the current MuSa is due, for some sections, including the archaeological one, to the Emilian artist. And it is precisely the rearrangement of the contemporary collection of the Salodian museum that has offered the stimulus to investigate, more fully, the cultural context in which Mucchi moves, a sensitive interpreter of a complex and magmatic passage in international figurative production, one step away from the avant-garde. .