Enrico Sacchetti Biography
Enrico Sacchetti (Rome, 28 February 1877 – Settignano, 27 December 1967) was an Italian painter, illustrator and writer, winner of the Bagutta Prize in 1935 with "Vita da Artist". Born in Rome to a Tuscan family, son of Giuseppe, a state official and painter by passion, friend of Telemaco Signorini and Isolina Cecchini, he was introduced to the artistic environment of his hometown of Florence as a boy. Having completed his technical studies, which he followed to satisfy his father's work expectations, he returned to Florence, where he became a great friend of Libero Andreotti. In 1901 he collaborated with Vamba, at Bruscolo, and then began working as a caricaturist with Umberto Notari, which brought him success. Enrico Sacchetti is in fact considered one of the most famous Italian caricaturists of the twentieth century. He is a friend of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose poetry magazine he illustrates, and becomes one of the most famous advertising illustrators, thanks to the successful series of Bitter Campari and the invigorating syrup Proton. In 1908 he moved to Argentina, where in Buenos Aires he collaborated for El Diario, the capital's newspaper, but disappointed by his South American experience, he returned to Europe where he stayed in Paris for a short period. From 1912 he began to collaborate assiduously on La Lettura, an illustrated monthly magazine for Corriere della Sera, for which he designed many of the color covers and internal black and white illustrations that accompanied short stories and novels. His style would visually characterize the periodical for around 25 years (just as Achille Beltrame and Walter Molino characterized La Domenica del Corriere). During the First World War, enlisted in the ranks of the Royal Army, he collaborated on La Tradotta, the famous magazine of the Third Army. After the armistice of Cassibile he joined the Italian Social Republic and accompanied his pictorial work with an occasional collaboration with the "Corriere" as an elzevirista.
