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Federico Quatrini, born in Milan on 21 September 1916, in the immediate post-war period, after his initial Milanese pictorial experiences and the first exhibition of paintings and drawings held in Venice in 1939, in the post-war years he arrived in Albisola and approached ceramic material, which will lead him to sculpture, firing his clay works in the ovens of Pozzo Garitta, owned by Bianco d'Albisola. In 1949 he made his debut as a ceramist by presenting some of his works, unique pieces, in a solo exhibition in Albissola and at the Cairola Gallery in Milan. Read the full biography

Federico Quatrini, born in Milan on 21 September 1916, in the immediate post-war period, after his initial Milanese pictorial experiences and the first exhibition of paintings and drawings held in Venice in 1939, in the post-war years he arrived in Albisola and approached ceramic material, which will lead him to sculpture, firing his clay works in the ovens of Pozzo Garitta, owned by Bianco d'Albisola. In 1949 he made his debut as a ceramist by presenting some of his works, unique pieces, in a solo exhibition in Albissola and at the Cairola Gallery in Milan. In 1952 he participated in the National Ceramics Competition of Messina, in 1954 in the Exhibition of Master Ceramists at the San Fedele Gallery in Milan and in 1956 in the International Ceramics Competition in Faenza. Moved by a profound religious faith, he created numerous works of a religious nature including the large Via Crucis intended for the chapel of the Episcopal Complex of Vigevano and exhibited, in 1957, at the Cairola Gallery in Milan. In the 1950s he also attended the Albisola laboratories of the "Ce.As." owned by Pietro Rosso, Pietro Mantero and Angelo Platino, the Jolanda Schiavi furnace, that of "Pozzo Garitta" and La Fenice. In 1960 he presented a bronze statue at the Premio Citta di Forlì and from the same year he was present at all the editions of the Albissola Ceramics Festival where, in 1961 he was awarded a gold medal. In 1962 he participated in the Biennial of Sacred Art in Vigevano and at the Monza International Exhibition. In 1963 he was invited by the municipality of Albissola Marina to participate, together with other important ceramists, in the creation of the Lungomare degli Artisti. At the beginning of the 1960s he created some interesting monotypes of artistic ceramics at the Milanese laboratories of Vincenzo Bortolotti. In 1964 a personal exhibition was dedicated to him at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan. In the same years he created a white monochrome bas-relief depicting the Via Crucis for the Parish Church of Albissola Marina and collaborated with Eliseo Salino's "San Giorgio" from Albissola. In the 1980s he was invited to create some ceramic works at the Albisola factory "Fabbrica Casa Museo Giuseppe Mazzotti 1903". Federico Quatrini died in Savona in 1991.