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Painter, born in Bologna, Italy. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, where he later taught pupils there (1930–56). Although influenced by the Italian Metaphysical painters (c.1918–19), he concentrated on landscapes, portraits, and above all still-life. His arrangements of everyday objects on a tabletop were painted in subdued tones, and with a simplicity of form reminiscent of Cézanne. He won the Grand Prix for Painting at the Venice Biennale in 1948, and other honours followed.

Giorgio Morandi (June 20, 1890 - June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter who specialized in still life.

Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna in 1890. In that same year, Morandi was appointed instructor of drawing for elementary schools in Bologna — a post he held until 1929. There is today a museum dedicated to the display of Morandi's work, including a reconstruction of his studio, in Bologna. During the war, Morandi's still lives became more reduced in their compositional elements and purer in form, revealing his admiration for both Cézanne and the Douanier Rousseau.

A Metaphysical painting (Pittura Metafisica) phase in Morandi's work lasted from 1918 to 1922. Morandi showed in the Novecento italiano exhibitions of 1926 and 1929, but was more specifically associated with the regionalist Strapaese group by the end of the decade, a fascist-influenced group emphasizing local cultural traditions. From 1930 to 1956, Morandi was a professor of etching at Accademia di Belle Arti.

Throughout his career, Morandi concentrated almost exclusively on still lives and landscapes, except for a few self-portraits. Morandi executed 133 etchings, a significant body of work in its own right, and his drawings and watercolors often approach abstraction in their economy of means.

Morandi was one of the most impressive Italian painters of his day. Federico Fellini paid tribute to him in his film La Dolce Vita, which featured Morandi's paintings. Morandi was additionally perceived as one of the few artists to have escaped the taint of Fascism, and to have evolved a style of pure pictorial values congenial to modernist abstraction.