Corrado Cagli (1910-1976)

Corrado Cagli was an Italian-Jewish artist, who was born in Ancona in 1910 and grew up in Rome. In the 1930s he established the Scuola Romana group of artists with Giuseppe Capogrossi and Emanuele Cavalli. With the rise of Mussolini and the intensification of the persecution of Italy’s Jewish population, Cagli fled first to Paris and then New York, becoming an American citizen. In New York he worked on designs and decoration for the theatre and became part of the circle of creative personalities around Pavel Tchelitchew, including the artists Eugene Berman and Morris Graves. After the war he returned to Rome, where he died in 1976.