Umberto boccioni biography of nancy

Umberto Boccioni was an Italian painter and sculptor who had considerable intellectual influence on the world of art, even though his life was cut tragically short at age 33.

Boccioni is most often called a “Futurist,” a style of art that emerged mostly in Italy in the early 1900s.

Futurism was part art and part social movement which was interested in technology, speed, industrial themes, youth and even violence.

Birth and Education

Umberto Boccioni was born in 1882 in the southern Italian city of Reggio.

He studies art at the Scuola Libera del Nudo which belonged to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. His painting style can best be considered post-impressionism, futurist and perhaps influenced by cubism. It is in his works of sculpture where Boccioni’s futuristic themes are most