1. Gottardo Fidele Piazzoni was a Swiss-born American landscape painter, muralist and sculptor of Italian heritage, a key member of the school of Northern California artists in the early 1900s.
11 Facts About Gottardo Piazzoni
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Gottardo Piazzoni moved at the age of 15 to his father's dairy farm in the Carmel Valley.
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Gottardo Piazzoni then returned to California to begin his career and set up his own teaching studio.
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Gottardo Piazzoni knew the exact time for each moonrise and kept precise records.
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Gottardo Piazzoni was a co-founder of the California Society of Etchers in 1912, with Robert B Harshe, art professor at Stanford University; Pedro Joseph de Lemos, professor at San Francisco Art Institute; and Ralph Stackpole, sculptor, printmaker, and at that time Piazzoni's studio assistant.
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Gottardo Piazzoni was a member of the Bohemian Club, exhibited with the Berkeley and Monterey art colonies, taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and served on the jury and advisory committee of the Art Gallery at the Hotel Del Monte.
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Gottardo Piazzoni was a good friend of Impressionist Granville Redmond and introduced the Deaf artist to Charlie Chaplin.
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The relationship of Redmond, Chaplin and Gottardo Piazzoni is explored in a play by Steve Hauk, "The Floating Hat," published by the Traditional Fine Art Organization, Inc The play is in the collection of the Gallaudet University library.
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American landscape painter Mireille Gottardo Piazzoni Wood was Gottardo Piazzoni's daughter, painter-writer Philip Wood his son-in-law.
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Gottardo Piazzoni died on August 1,1945, at the Gottardo Piazzoni ranch home in Carmel Valley.
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Gottardo Piazzoni was buried at the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park cemetery, in Colma, California.