Neera Gatti Biography
Neera Gatti (1906 - 1973) was born in Trieste in 1906. She attended the Carmini Art Institute in Venice, followed by Guido Grimani and enrolled in 1930 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice where she studied with teachers Emanuele Brugnoli and Virgilio Guidi. In 1944 he enrolled in a course at the Institute of Ceramic Art in Faenza held by Domenico Rambelli and Anselmo Bucci. He opened his own business in Padua which was destroyed during the bombings of the war. After working for a few months in some premises in Ponte di Brenta, in 1948 he opened his own factory in Venice, the "Gatti Neera Ceramiche", with an adjoining "Bottega Scuola d'Arte Ceramica dei Frari", in which, over the course of almost a decade of activity, numerous and important artists and craftsmen are trained. In 1948, 1950, 1952 and 1954 she was invited to exhibit her works at the Venice Biennale and in the same years she also exhibited in San Francisco, Cairo, New York, London, Paris, Oslo, Stockholm, Toronto and Geneva. In 1956 he was again at the Venice Biennale with the work Hydraulic Organ. Among the collaborators of the shop, which closed in the 1960s, we remember Giorgio Wenter Marini. He took part three times in the Faenza National Ceramics Competition: in the VIII edition of 1949 (Second Prize in THEME 4 “Popular or rustic ceramics”); IX edition of 1950; X edition of 1952. Neera Gatti died in Venice in 1973.
