Federico Lebrun

Place: Naples

Born: 1900

Death: 1964

Biography:

Rico Lebrun was born in Naples, Italy in 1900. He initially studied banking and journalism before taking art classes at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts from 1919 to 1921. Following this he went to Florence, where he studied as a muralist. He received practical training at a stained-glass factory. After emigrating to the United States in 1924, he worked as a commercial artist in Pittsburgh and New York for several years. In the early 1930s he returned to Italy where he studied at the Villa Schifanoia in Florence. In 1938 for one year he taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Perugia. In 1940, Lebrun taught at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, then at the Jepson Art Institute, also in L.A., from 1947–50, directing it from 1951-54 when it closed. He died in Malibu, California in 1964.