Elisa Montessori

محل: Genoa

بدنیا آمدن: 1931

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Elisa Montessori is an Italian painter, born in Genoa in 1931. She has been living and working in Trastevere in Rome since the mid-1950s, where she owns a studio. Montessori was interested in drawing since childhood and studied classical subjects, graduating with a humanities degree in 1953 from La Sapienza University in Rome. After graduation, she was trained at Mirko Basaldella's studio where she met with the Gruppo Origine: Ettore Colla, Alberto Burri, and Giuseppe Capogrossi. With Basaldella, she started experimenting with techniques such as egg tempera, ceramics, goldworking, and engraving. In 1955, Montessori won a student grant to go to Paris, but decided to stay in Rome after her meeting with scientist Mario Tchou, who became her husband the same year. Montessori and Tchou moved to Milan and had two daughters. Following the sudden death of Tchou in a car accident while on his way to Olivetti's headquarters in Ivrea in 1961, Montessori relocated to Rome. She would later remarry with Costantino Dardi, an architect. Montessori's work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad.