Gino Romiti (1881-1967) was born in Livorno in a family of modest economic conditions, This does not prevent him from cultivating his passion for art. Already at a young age he began to attend School Guglielmo Micheli, like many of his contemporaries Tuscan, where he was undoubtedly influenced by the great teacher inspires Giovanni Fattori. Among his classmates there were some, as Llewelyn Lloyd, who became the leader of the interesting Postmacchiaioli, consists of those who, although moving in directions autonomous artistic, always maintained a close relationship with the pictorial tradition of Tuscany.
Romiti debuted in Milan in the Permanent 1891 and, completed his training at the studio in Micheli 1902, in 1903 participated at the International Art Exhibition in Venice, event to which he returned several times in subsequent years.
In the following years continued unabated his exhibitions. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Gino Romiti, was among the most accomplished artists who were to attend the Coffee Bardi. He, as well as participate in the vibrant artistic ferment, concorse, in 1911, the decoration of the spaces of local, alongside other artists and friends.
His work was interrupted in 1915 when he was called up and sent to Albania. Occasions to exhibit in 1918 paintings and drawings produced over the years, subject of military and military-related experience, in a solo show at his gallery in Florence.
The career of the artist, The first phase of which seemed from the stylistic dictates of Postmacchiaioli, turned towards more innovative when in languages 1920, together with other artists of Livorno, founded the Group Labronico, from their office and who was president from 1943 the 1967.
From 1922 exhibited several times in Florence and Livorno with solo artists along with other interesting and related to the pictorial tradition postmacchiaiolo Labronica. In 1931 also participated in the International Exhibition in Athens.
During World War II took refuge in Montuolo, in the province of Lucca, by 1942 the 1945 about.
He returned to Livorno filming an intense artistic production and exhibition, which helped to consolidate its market presence, making it one of the artists over Livorno in the collections. Over the years he continued to exhibit, also at the Venice Biennale, also devoting, particular attention to his activities as president of Group Labronico and is committed to promoting the art of Livorno, for example by being one of the organizers of the Round Award of Livorno.
He died in Livorno 1967.
Gino Romiti, like many of his contemporaries Livorno, took its first steps in the tradition of the great Tuscan masters, from Giovanni Fattori, up to the leaders of the movement of postmacchiaiolo, with whom he remained in contact in the early stages of his career. The definitions attributed to him to be impressionist or pointillist responded by declaring neither one nor the other, but both, he served as artistic expressions of all the bending function of expressing his will and his inner life on the canvas.
Through a stroke, which undoubtedly reflects the different currents which appeared the young and curious Romiti, He was able to create landscapes with extended atmospheres, thanks to the ability to create color combinations never excessive or unpleasant, but always calibrated, even when he decides to use the brighter ones.
