Enrico Reycend (Turin, Italy 1855 - Turin, Italy 1928)

Born in Turin in 1855, he attended the Albertina Academy without graduating. He continued his studies via private lessons with Enrico Ghisolfi, Lorenzo Delleani and Antonio Fontanesi, his art subject to different influences: from his trips to Paris and the circle of Camille Corot, to friendships with his peers including Filippo Carcano, Marco Calderini and Leonardo Bazzaro.

In 1872, he left the Academy to make his debut at the Promotional Society of Fine Arts in Turin, where he exhibited two landscapes influenced by Fontanesi, a theme he soon abandoned.

After a visit to the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878, he was so fascinated by Corot, Manet and Monet that, during a stay in Genoa between 1885 and 1886, he portrayed different views of the port, capturing different weather conditions in each, in the style of the French Impressionists.

In the following years, Reycend received numerous awards: his natural landscapes and cityscapes widely appreciated.

In 1890, he became an honorary member of the Brera Academy. He later received a gold medal at the Donatellian exhibition in Naples and a silver medal in Dresden in 1896. Three years later, he participated in the Venice Biennale International Universal Exhibition in Paris and, in 1904, the Italian exhibition in London.

In 1902, Reycend founded the magazine Modern Decorative Art with Davide Calandra, Leonardo Bistolfi, Giorgio Ceragioli and Enrico Thovez.

He continued to exhibit successfully, from the LXXIX International Exhibition of the Society of Amateurs and Connoisseurs of the Fine Arts in 1909 to the International Exhibition of the Fiftieth Anniversary and the Artistic Society of the Independents of Rome 1911. Ten years later, he took part in the First Roman Biennial for the fiftieth anniversary of the capital and the Second Post-war Quadrennial in Turin.

He died in Turin in 1928. 

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