Gino DeFinetti

Gino De Finetti also Gino von Finetti (9 May 1877 – 5 August 1955) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born in Istria, De Finetti had a childhood characterized by various transfers due to the work of his father, a railway engineer. After attending school in Trieste, he trained artistically in Munich and lived for a long time in Germany until 1934, the year in which the rise of the Nazi regime convinced him to return to Italy. He was a prolific illustrator, cartoonist and graphic designer.

Biography Gino de Finetti, also known as Gino von Finetti and Gino Ritter von Finetti, was born in Pisino, Istria (now Pazin, Croatia), on 9 May 1877 In 1926 an exhibition in Amsterdam saw him exhibit with the Trieste painter Adolfo Levier.

In 1934 the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany persuaded De Finetti and his spouse to leave the country and move to Italy, to the villa in Corona. From 1935 to 1938 the painter had a period of frequent exhibitions in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary and in Italy in Naples. In 1950 he produced the work Via Crucis, exhibited at the Church of Santi Maria and Zenone in Corona. De Finetti died suddenly in Gorizia on 5 August 1955, suffering a heart attack while he was at the city post office.

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