Mario Borgiotti

Mario Borgiotti was born in 1906 to a working-class family in Livorno, Italy[1][2]

In 1921 knows the painters of Gruppo Labronico and Ulvi Liegi.

After studying violin, he devoted himself to the trade in works of art from 1922; for years, I decided for the knowledge of the art world from Leghorn in fact are just that time acquainted with Gino Romiti, Umberto Vittorini.

In 1925, he organized an exhibition of contemporary painting at Pisa with the presence of a large group of painters labronici.

His first exhibition of 19th century art took place in Pisa in 1927.

In 1928, he promoted a Last at "Bottega d'Arte Calligani" exhibition-sale of works by Macchiaioli.

In the 1930 in Viareggio a collective exhibition of painters labronici and of Italian artists of the nineteenth century.

He began his apprenticeship as a painter with master Giovanni March in the same year, and in 1934 his work was first exhibited in group show at the seventh provincial exhibition of Livorno.

Intense his work as a portraitist he sees immortalised in his paintings Pietro Mascagni, Giovanni Bartolena, Ulvi Liegi and Piero Vaccari.

In 1938, he moved to Florence and organized an exhibition of 19th-century painting at the Gallery Florence.

In 1946, the "art gallery" of Livorno exhibited 46 of his works of his artistic repertoire.

In 1947, he joined the Gruppo Labronico. He became president of the group in 1967.

In 1953 with Nedo Luschi and Renzo Casali the prize painting contest at the Rotonda of Ardenza.

In 1955, Borgiotti moved to Milan and continued his artistic career with the study of SagratiScotti via Manzoni.

He organized the "Salem" with Renato Natali, Bruno Miniati and Aldo Santini in Livorno in 1961.

In 1963, he was one of the curators of an exhibition of artists macchiaioli to "artistic Center Skyscraper" directed by father Guidubaldi of Livorno; exhibition will be moving to London and from here in the United States in major American museums.