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Biography
| 1899 | born in Turin |
| 1917-1924 | Studies of Engineering at the University of Bologna |
| 1918-1919 | Military service in Italy |
| 1924-1925 | Employee in the office of a building contractor in Rome |
| 1926-1928 | Working for the architect and painter Gigiotti Zanini in Milan |
| 1928-1930 | Stay and studio in Berlin, illustrations for magazines i. a. “Die Neue Revue” and “Der Querschnitt”, friendship with Ernesto De Fiori |
| 1931-1934 | Studio in Paris, contact with the group “Italians in Paris” |
| 1934 | Moving to Milan, contacts with anti-fascist artists |
| 1942-1944 | Called up for military service, destruction of his studio and flat in an air raid, partisan with the Garibaldi Brigades |
| 1945-1950 | Member of the Italian Communist Party, work as an architect, founding of the artist group “Realismo” in Milan |
| 1956-1961 | Visiting professorship for Painting at the University of Fine and Applied Arts, Berlin-Weißensee |
| 1959 | Stage designs for the Berliner Ensemble and the Deutsches Theater |
| 1960-1961 | Visiting professorship at the Institute for Art Education at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald |
| 2002 | died in Milan |
Awards and grants
| 1982 | Hans Grundig Medal of the Association of Visual Artist of the GDR, Berlin |