Dario Galimberti

Dario Galimberti was born in Chioggia in 1881, from a well-to-do family, he obtained a middle school diploma and obtained a banking job, which he then abandoned to study painting with Giuseppe Danieli. He is a great admirer of his contemporary Venetian colleagues, but it is in Vienna that his first work is exhibited in 1908; however, it is a permanent presence in Italian exhibitions. In 1910 he began to follow the school of Alessandro Milesi, who in the course of the following two years, introduced him to the great Venetian painting. From 1924 to 1927 he will be director of the Art School of Chioggia, and then obtain the chair of drawing of the Gymnasium and, until 1932, of the Municipal Technical Institute: contemporary is the birth of the passion for poetry, which Galimberti will cultivate, and that will reach its climax after the adventure of Fiume, when the unrealized political aims of the artist turned into bitterness.

Immediate impression of his painting is that it is simple and without modernistic imbalances, in strong contrast with the artist's extrovert personality (which, together with the relevant social position of the same, will make him promoter of various initiatives in his hometown , of which he was also mayor in 1944). In reality, although fundamentally traditionalist, he is aware of and participates in the changes in taste of the time, and always puts the vitalistic emotion in his works in the foreground. Despite the parks, it is always visible in the works of Galimberti a perfect mastery of color and shapes, which he chooses carefully. The favorite subjects are the boats and the reflections of the water.

Colors and plastic shapes are carefully analyzed and synthesized in a precious and personal way: the first ones, distributed in an original way, highlight the unfolding of the floors. The artist acts as an intermediary between the Venetian, severe and aristocratic painting, learned from Milesi, and the intense chromatism of the "chioggisti": this leads to a calm chromaticism, neither meditated nor daring, and very coherent. For this reason, Dario Galimberti can and is rightly considered one of the greatest exponents of the landscape of Chioggia. He died in Chioggia, in 1966.