Alfredo Filippini

Among his main plastic works, the terracotta San Giovanni Battista placed in 2005 in a niche in Via Cortevecchia in Ferrara,

As an illustrator he has collaborated on various issues of the Ferrara magazine La Pianura and has created dozens of drawings for Gianoberto Lupi for the book-strenna Capolavori per la caccia (Florence, 1994) and the cover of the volume Cani exteriors (Florence, 1998).

One of the founders of the Amici dell'Arte Club, in 1982 he began attending the sculpture workshop held by his fellow citizen Laerte Milani at the private school in the former church of San Nicolò. Since then he alternated the exercise of sculpture with easel painting, holding various personal exhibitions in many regions of Italy.

In 1971 he painted, together with the painter Paolo Fabbri, the altarpiece of Blessed Michele Rua, destined for the Church of San Benedetto (Ferrara).

As a painter, he particularly cultivated the landscape genre, not neglecting sacred or mythological subjects of figure. Attracted by the chromatism that descended from the Venetian tradition, he performed numerous views of the Dolomites, the Romagna Riviera and the Ferrara plain. Between 1968 and 1971 he attended the Free School of Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna following the courses of Mascalchi and Montanari.

Born from Adolfo and Pasquarosa Contri as a teenager he worked as a craftsman at Donato Santini, a manufacturer of wooden toys from Ferrara. He was forced to leave his job following a tuberculous infection and to be hospitalized in Valtellina in a sanatorium. Here he met the painter from Cuneo Ego Bianchi, who gave him his first drawing and painting lessons. Having recovered and returned to Ferrara, he was one of the founders of the CAD artistic circle, with which he began to exhibit in the first group exhibitions starting from January 1946 at the foyer of the Municipal Theater.

Alfredo Filippini (Ferrara, 22 October 1924 - Ferrara, 1 June 2020) was an Italian sculptor, painter and illustrator.