Fafa Fine Art Gallery

Aldo Patocchi
1907 Basel, 1986 Lugano
The teacher and writer Giuseppe
Zoppi started him on artistic studies
and introduced him to Ettore Cozzani,
director of the prestigious Milanese
magazine “L’Eroica” for which
he worked from 1925. Self-taught,
he won four Federal scholarships between
1925 and 1931; in 1932 he
received the gold medal at the Triennial
of Decorative Arts of Monza, the
first of numerous awards.
He formed part of numerous juries
and commissions in Switzerland,
amongst which the Commission of
Acquisition for the Graphic Collection
of the Polytechnic of Zurich.
From 1950 to 1962 he was member
of the Pro Helvetia foundation; he
was Chairman of the Ticinese Society
of Fine Arts, Vice-Chairman of the
Swiss Painters, Sculptures and Architects
Society.
Patocchi’s works are always carried
out with gouge etching on the very
hard wood engraving in boxwood,
in which he shows a remarkable
technical ability.
Starting out mainly as a figurative
illustrator, he soon obtained the certain
and personal stylistic style which
characterised his work up to his maturity,
such as to place him, in a very
short time, amongst the highest national
and, more generically, Italian
levels in this genre.
Works: Lugano, Civic Museum of
Fine Arts; Winterthur, Kunstmuseum;
Le Locle, Musée des beaux-arts;
Geneva, Ateneo; Bern, National Library;
Zurich, Graphische Sammlung
der ETH; Mendrisio, Art Museum;
Venice, Gallery of Modern Art; Trieste,
Revoltella Museum; Carpi, Civic
Museum; Warsaw, State Museum.
Carpi, Museo Civico; Varsavia, Museo
statale.