Casa museo di Osvaldo Licini

About the museum

The Casa Museo Osvaldo Licini stands at the top of the small village of Monte Vidon Corrado, in the Marche, in an 18th-century manor house on three floors where Osvaldo Licini, one of the great artists of 20th-century European art, spent almost his whole life. After his studies in Bologna and Florence, the war, and years between Paris and the Côte d'Azur, at the age of thirty-two he chose to return to the village and make the house an “experimental art laboratory” (laboratorio d'arte sperimentale). He worked here until 1958, when he received the international prize at the Venice Biennale, and he died here a few months later. From 1946 to 1956 he was also mayor of the village.

A careful restoration has consolidated the building and preserved traces of the artist's presence. Furnishings, objects and clothes, largely donated by Caterina Celi Hellström, adopted daughter of his wife Nanny, recreate the domestic setting. Visitors can see the cellar with brick vaults, where Licini prepared his colours; the living area with the room in which he finished and stored his works; the kitchen in a Nordic style; and the sitting room with Swedish furniture and paintings such as the “Ritratto della madre” (Portrait of the Mother, 1921) and the “Paesaggio” (Landscape, 1925).

Climbing the spiral staircase you can admire the wall painting of the 1940s in shades of blue and grey. On the upper floor are the studio, with easels, paints and brushes, and the bedroom in Constructivist style with the Archipittura, the only wall paintings made by Licini. Another room displays works by his wife, the Swedish painter Nanny. The house is run together with the Centro Studi Osvaldo Licini, which is based in the same building, on the corner of the municipal palace.

Highlights

• Restored artist's house with original furnishings and objects
• 1940s wall painting on the ceiling of the staircase
• Constructivist-style room with the Archipittura
• Studio with easels, paints and brushes
• Paintings by Licini and works by his wife Nanny

Permanent exhibition

• Casa Museo Osvaldo Licini – Route through the artist's rooms on three levels: cellar, kitchen, sitting room, wall paintings, studio and Constructivist-style bedroom.

Operated by

Centro Studi Osvaldo Licini

Visitors per year

approx. 6,000

Admission & discounts

Prices published on the website under “Tariffe mostra” (exhibition prices). Free tickets also for accompanying teachers, journalists registered with the professional order, residents and former residents of Monte Vidon Corrado, ICOM members, tourist guides, Ministry of Culture staff and military personnel of the Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (Cultural Heritage Protection Unit).

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Getting there & parking

The ticket office is in the rooms of the Centro Studi Osvaldo Licini, on the corner of the municipal palace.

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