Fausto Melotti 

Fausto Melotti was born in Rovereto (Trento) on the 8th of June 1901.

In 1918 he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Pisa, a course of studies that he continued at the Politecnico in Milan, where he graduated in Electrotechnical Engineering in 1924.

During this period he studied the piano and took up studies o...

Fausto Melotti was born in Rovereto (Trento) on the 8th of June 1901.

In 1918 he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Pisa, a course of studies that he continued at the Politecnico in Milan, where he graduated in Electrotechnical Engineering in 1924.

During this period he studied the piano and took up studies of sculpture in Turin under the sculptor Pietro Canonica.
In 1928 he enrolled at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, where he was the pupil of Adolfo Wildt with Lucio Fontana, with whom he formed a long friendship.

In 1932 he agreed to give a course in modern plastic arts at the Scuola artigianale in Cantù. Melotti wrote:

"We believe that we arrive at art through art, the fruit of personal insight: thus, all our efforts consist in teaching the small heroic act of thinking with our own brains."