Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Antonio Dattilo Rubbo

Australian artist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1870

Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Jun-1955

Profession: painter

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Antonio Dattilo Rubbo

  • Antonio Salvatore Dattilo Rubbo Napoli 21 June 1870 –Sydney 1 June 1955) was an Italian-born artist and art teacher active in Australia from 1897.Rubbo, or Dattilo-Rubbo, was born in Naples in 1870, and spent his early childhood in the Neapolitan municipality of Frattamaggiore.
  • He studied painting under Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi before emigrating to Australia, arriving in Sydney in 1897.
  • From 1898 Rubbo taught in Sydney schools including St.
  • Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, Kambala, The Scots College and Newington College.
  • Dattilo Rubbo was not a great artist - "muddy genre portraits of very wrinkled old Tuscan peasants were his strong suit," according to critic Robert Hughes - but he was an inspiring art teacher, responsible for introducing a whole generation of Australian painters to modernism through his art school (opened in 1898) and his classes at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.
  • In contrast to nearly all other art teachers in Australia at the time, he was not a reactionary, and encouraged his students to experiment with styles as radically different from his own as post-impressionism and cubism.
  • He was a flamboyant character who believed in championing his students to the hilt; indeed, in 1916 he challenged a committee member of the Royal Art Society to a duel because he had refused to hang a post-impressionist landscape by his pupil Roland Wakelin.
  • Other students included Norah Simpson, Frank Hinder, Grace Cossington Smith (whom Dattilo Rubbo referred to affectionately as 'Mrs Van Gogh'), Donald Friend ("Aha Donaldo, always the barocco; rub it out, boy, rub it out!"), Roy De Maistre, war artist Roy Hodgkinson, Archibald Prize winner Arthur Murch, social realist Roy Dalgarno, Tom Bass, and more.
  • In 1924 he helped to found Manly Art Gallery and Historical Collection which holds over one hundred and thirty of his works.

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