Elisa Maria Boglino
Danish-Italian painter
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Elisa Johanne Rosa Maria Boglino (7 May 1905 – 2002) was a Danish-Italian painter, active in Denmark and Italy.
7 May 1905
Elisa Maria Boglino | |
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Boglino photographed in Palermo c. 1930, with her mother to the left and husband to the right | |
| Born | Elisa Johanne Rosa Maria Maioli 7 May 1905 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 2002 (aged 96–97) Rome, Italy |
Resting place | Cimetero di Santa'Orsola, Palermo |
| Alma mater | Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Notable work | Donna e bimbo[1] Le alienate[2] Selfportrait 1930 https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS9148 |
| Style | Avant-garde, Expressionism |
| Spouse | Giovanni Boglino |
Biography



The father was Legationssekr. Alberto Maioli.[6]
Boglino grew up with her divorced mother. Boglino married, and settled in Palermo in 1927.[7][8]
According to a colleague from the years in Sicily Lia Pasqualina Noto (it) during the thirties it seems that Boglino had moved to Rome until her death.[9]
Boglino studied from 1923 to 1926 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Sigurd Wandel[8][10]
One painting was purchased by Modern Art Gallery Sant'Anna (Palermo)
Her husband was Giovanni Boglino (born 1898 in Palermo).
The family home during World War II was a vineyard in the mountains south of Cefalu on the northern cost of Sicily.[11]
Exhibitions
- 1926–27, 1929: Charlottenborg in Copenhagen
- 1930: Venice Biennale (sala 34 and 37, catalogue p. 127 and 136)
- 1930: Exhibitions at Mostre del Sindacato di Belle Arti [Syndicate of fine art] in Palermo, Catania and Florence
- 1932: Third Exhibition of The Sicilian Fascist Syndicate(wins prize Podesta di Palermo)[12]
- 1932: Galleria di Roma (personal, curated by Pietro Maria Bardi)[13][14]
- 1932: Galleria del Milione, Milan (personal[13][15]
- 1932: Wolfgang Gurlitt Galleri, Berlin(personal)[16]
- 1933-34: Venice Biennale (sala 48, cat. p. 190)[17]
- 1933: Fourth Regional Exhibition of the Art Syndicate in Catania
- 1933: Gallery Christian Larsen in Copenhagen
- 1949: Bach's Kunsthandel in Copenhagen and at Jugels Kunst in Århus (Personal)
- 1954: Gallery "Vetrina of Chiurazzi" in Rome
- 1954: IV Exhibition of Painting in May in Bari
- 1956: VIII Exhibition og Painting C.I.M (wins prize of Roberto Merli)
- 1956: Venice Biennnale (sala 28, cat. p. 118)[18]
- 1958: Gallery del Vantaggio, Rome (Personal)[19]
- 1958: Premio di Pittura Valle Roveto (wins prize of Zahrtmann)
- 1958: Biennale of holy art, Grosseto
- 1959: Maggio Pittura Romana (Painting in May Rome) (wins prize of Rome)
- 1960: Exhibition Augustinian of holy art, Rome
- 1963: Gallery del Vantaggio, Roma (personal)
Grønningen, in Copenhagen (invitated)
- 1976: Exhibition of holy art, Viterbo
- 1979: Gallery Hågen Muller, Copenhagen (personal)
- 1996: Art of Sicily in the Thirties, Trenta and Marsala
- 2001: The Church S. Maria in Montesanto, The Artists' Fair, Rome
Posthumous exhibitions:
- 2002: "In the Shadow"-Female art from the eighteenth and nineteenth century".Nell'Ombra – L’arte al femminile tra Ottocento e Novecento.[20] (Gallery of modern art in Palermo – GAM)
- 2003-2004 (Minsk, Mosca, Barcellona, Palermo): Novecento Siciliano.[21][22]"Sicilian nineteenth"
- 2006:"The Wounds of being" . Solitude and meditation among Sicilian women in the thirties. Le ferite dell’essere: Solitudine e meditazione nelle siciliane degli anni ‘30, a cura di Anna Maria Ruta, Spazi Espositivi Chiaramontani, Agrigento.
- 2007: "Female avant-gardes in Italy and Russia", Avantguardie femminili in Italia e Russia, a cura di Renato Miracco, Galleria Regionale Pallazzo Bellomo, Palermo.[23]
- 2012: "Womenart",100 years of female art in Sicily 1850-1950", Artedonna, Cento anni d’arte femminile in Sicilia 1850–1950,[24][25] a cura di Anna Maria Ruta, presso il Reale Albergo delle Povere, Palermo.
- 2014: "Sicilian Artists, from Pirandello to Judice", Artisti di Sicilia, da Pirandello a Judice, a cura di Vittorio Sgarbi, presso l’ex Stabilimento Florio, Favignana, Catania.[26]
- 2016-2017: "Topazia Alliata. A life in the sign of art", Topazia Alliata. Una vita nel segno dell’Arte, a cura di Anna Maria Ruta, presso Palazzo S. Elia, Palermo.[27]
- 2020-2021: "Sicilian Artists", Artisti di Sicilia, a cura di Vittorio Sgarbi, presso Convitto delle Arti, Noto.[28]
- 2024: Personal in Pescara:"Elisa Maria Boglino-da Copenaghen a Roma-tra due Patrie nella Pittura-Between two homelands in painting" curated by Marco Nocca.[29][30]
Works
- "Donna e bimbo" / "Madre e Figlia" (Woman and Child) - [permanent collection] at Modern Art Gallery Sant'Anna (in Palermo).[31]
- "Figures" and "Horses" Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Monreale, Sicily[32]
- "Donne col Parapioggia": Museo valle Roveto Civita d'Antino
- "Le Alienate"( The Obsessed)[33] At The Museo Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto[2]
- "Donna Seduta" (Seated Woman") Collezione Antonio Pusateri, Agrigent
- "Emmaus" Basilica Santa Maria in Leuca
- "The good Samaritan", "Selfpotrait 1930", "Jesus heals the obsessed" and "Matilde" and 6 drawings, are owned and exhibited by the National Gallery of Denmark. [34] Selfportrait 1930 was bought by the museum in 2025
Gallery
- Triptycon. The Beheading of Sct. John the Baptist. Oil on canvas. Partial destroyed. ca.1927 (Artedonna p. 179)
- The family home (Santa Anastasia), just south of Cefalu as it looked in 1940, Photo
- Self-portrait. Oil on canvas, 1930. At the National Gallery of Denmark