Alberto Issel
(Genoa, 1848 – 1926)
Italian painter, sculptor and cabinet
making artist.
He started his studies
of engraving in the linguistic Academy and then he moved to
Florence, where he became a pupil of the painter Carlo Markò.
Moved to Rome, he entered in contact with the Iberian painters
Josè Villegas and Mariano Fortuny. Back to Genoa he mostly
applied to the landscape painting.
He agreed to the
campaign of Garibaldi and participated to several campaigns of
the Hero of the Two Worlds. Back again in Genoa, he taught in
the Arts and Crafts school. In addition to painting and
sculpture he dedicated also to cabinet-making with significant
productions of liberty-style furniture., He participated to the
Universal Exposure in Paris in 1900, with several dedicated
wooden sculpture
some of his
furnitures
Translation by Alessandra Pigliasco