Biography
Luigi Russolo was born in Portogruaro on April 30, 1887. He came from a very musical family and seriously considered becoming a musician but moved to Milan and studied art at the Accademia di Brera. He joined the Famiglia Artistica di Milano group where he first met Carlo Carrà and Umberto Boccioni. At this stage he was interested mainly in Symbolist-influenced painting and engraving.
Russolo joined the Futurist movement at the beginning of 1910 and immediately became an activist, taking part in all the serata, or Futurist evenings, and other activities. He signed the Manifesto of Futurist and the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting. Russolo was committed to being the movement's musical activist as well as a political activist.
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Like many others, Russolo supported the Anarchist movement and contributed to their journals. In 1913 he co-signed, with Marinetti, Boccioni and Carrà, the manifesto Political Programme of Futurism that was published in Lacerba on October 15. During 1914 he participated in the interventionist demonstrations and was arrested and imprisoned for six days with Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà and Mazza.
When Italy entered the First World War, Russolo joined the Lombard Volunteer
Cyclist Battalion with many of his Futurist friends. Due to his opposition
to Fascism, Russolo spent most of his time between 1927 and 1932 in Paris.
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In 1931 he moved to Tarragona in Spain, where he studied occult philosophy and then in 1933 returned to Italy, settling in Cerro di Laveno on Lake Maggiore. Russolo published his philosophical investigations Al di là della materia (Beyond Matter) in 1938. In 1941-42, he took up painting again in a realist style that he called "classic-modern". Russolo died at Cerro di Lavenio in 1947.