Nerino Nannetti known as Neri Nannetti

Neri Nannetti was born in Florence in 1889 and was active in Florentine artistic life, especially against academicism.

He joined the Florentine group of Futurists in 1912. In 1916 collaborated in founding the fortnightly journal L'Italia Futurista to which he devoted a large amount of his time.

      


Neri Nannetti, 1916



Poster, 1928

    
In 1916 he co-signed, with  Arnaldo Ginna, Mario Carli, Emilio Settimelli, Oscar Mara and Remo Chiti, the Manifesto of Futurist Science published in L'Italia Futurista, Florence, on 15 June.

He gave up painting in the early 1920's to concentrate on advertising art. 

Nannetti died in Florence in 1982.


 

goto Futurism website home page - click here


recommend this page to a friend - click here