“Your duty is never to consume yourself in sacrifice.”
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani created most of his short career in France, but otherwise he was born in Livorno, Italy. He completed his first artistic education in his homeland, but then in 1906 he moved to Paris. His art is unique and difficult to define, because despite some influences of historical styles, especially primitive art, he completely deviated from his contemporaries.
Amedeo Modigliani is better known for his paintings, especially portraits where the faces imitate the asymmetry of masks, but in the years before the First World War the artist completely dedicated to sculpture. Although he was engaged in this for a limited period, sculptures are an important part of Modigliani’s artistic development from the post-impressionist period to expressionism and painting, which we follow in his oeuvre after 1913. After the start of the First World War, Modigliani abandoned sculpting, partly due to the harder availability of the material .
As far as his private life is concerned, Amedeo Modigliani is one of the more tragic artists of the 20th century. In the environment of bohemian Parisian life, he died at the age of only 35 as a result of tuberculosis meningitis, burned out and exhausted from the excessive consumption of narcotics and alcohol.