Salvatore Fiume | Figurative painter

Salvatore Fiume (1915-1997) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, writer and stage designer. His works are kept in some of the most important museums in the world, among which the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, the Museum of Modern Art of New York, the Pushkin Museum of Moscow and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Milan.

Born in Comiso, Sicily, on the 23rd of October, 1915 Salvatore Fiume was a painter, sculptor, architect, writer, and stage designer. At age sixteen he won a scholarship for the Royal Institute for the Book Illustration in Urbino, where he acquired a deep knowledge of printing techniques such as lithography, serigraphy, etching, and xylography. After finishing his studies, in 1936 he moved to Milan where he became friends with important writers such as Dino Buzzati and Salvatore Quasimodo, (the latter was to gain the Nobel Prize in 1959).