Umberto Boccioni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Umberto Boccioni

Italian painter and sculptor

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1882

Place of Birth: Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy

Date of Death: 17-Aug-1916

Profession: artist, painter, sculptor

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Umberto Boccioni (US: , Italian: [um'b?rto bot't?o?ni]; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor.
He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures.
Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death.
His works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces.