Walther Jervolino was born in 1944 in Bondeno, Italy, a small village near Ferrara.
11 Facts About Walther Jervolino
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Walther Jervolino's name was in honor of the German doctor who saved his mother's life during his birth.
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Walther Jervolino studied art under Italian realist painters Mario Calandri and Giacomo Soffiantino, favoring oil painting as well as the engraving techniques.
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Walther Jervolino began his professional career in the late 1960s in Paris, London and in Milan, where he lived for several years.
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Walther Jervolino later perfected his technique in the Roman studio of Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni, one of the major Italian artists.
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Walther Jervolino's technique, derived from years of personal study of Renaissance materials, colours and chemistry together with Postmodern art, produced in the 1980s works such as Gianduja and Giandujotto, The death of Pinocchio, The Collector and The Babel Tower.
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Walther Jervolino's works started to be to appreciated outside Europe.
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Fluent in English, Walther Jervolino lived both in Italy, where his family lived, and the United States, where many of his paintings were exhibited, receiving several positive reviews in magazines.
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Deeply influenced by the main protagonist of the 1883 children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, he tried to conceive an alternative destiny for Pinocchio, who was guilty, according to Walther Jervolino, of being a traitor to his father, Geppetto.
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Walther Jervolino presented several works depicting Pinocchio being decapitated or murdered with arrows.
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The hangman who always executes Pinocchio is similar in appearance to Walther Jervolino, thus depicting a personal revenge of the painter against the "devil" Pinocchio.