1. Michele Cascella exhibited regularly at the Venice Biennale from 1924 until 1942, and his works are owned by major museums in Italy and Europe, including Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, and Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.
Michele Cascella's father, Basilio Cascella, who was a painter, engraver, ceramist, lithographer and illustrator, was his first and most influential teacher.
Michele Cascella left school early, owing to bad results, and began to work in his father's chromolithographic laboratory in Pescara.
Michele Cascella was involved in the various lithographic processes of transfers and proofs.
Michele Cascella had now been out of school and working for his father for almost five years.
Michele Cascella sold his first painting privately in 1908 and had his first exhibition in Paris the following year.
In 1915 at the start of the World War I Italian Campaign Michele Cascella was sent to the front in the Trentino, but he did not stop painting.
In 1919 Michele Cascella moved to Milan where he shared an apartment with his friend and inspiration, the poet Clemente Rebora.
Michele Cascella dedicated himself to engraving and ceramics, later returning to oil and watercolor painting.
In 1924 Carlo Carra, who was a great supporter of the primitivism in Michele Cascella's paintings, gave him good reviews.
From 1931 until 1951 Michele Cascella participated in the Rome Quadriennales.
Michele Cascella then donated the watercolor The entrance to the village to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 1933 the director of Corriere della Sera, Aldo Borelli, invited Michele Cascella to collaborate with a series of sketches of important Italian places.
In 1934 Michele Cascella went to Libya for a few months and shortly after he received a commission from Maria-Jose, Princess of Piedmont for a series of paintings dedicated to southern Italian landscapes.
Michele Cascella gave him itinerary tips from Amalfi to Sila.
In 1937 Michele Cascella was invited to make the wall decoration for the new Maritime station of Messina.
Michele Cascella agreed only to prepare the sketch and left to his father and brother Tommaso the actual execution.
Michele Cascella won the gold medal at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
Michele Cascella then began to reside in Portofino which became the inspiration for many of his later works.
In 1942 Michele Cascella had a room at the Biennale of Venice, and he exhibited works made at the request of the Ministers of the Navy and the Air Force.
Later Michele Cascella was represented by the Juarez Gallery in Los Angeles.
Michele Cascella was a very congenial and humane person, as well as a tenacious worker.
Michele Cascella himself said that Henri Rousseau and Picasso had the greatest impact on the art world, while Van Gogh, Utrillo and Raoul Dufy most influenced his own work.
Michele Cascella is referred to as an Italian Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and neo-impressionist.
Michele Cascella won the gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1937.