Julius Evola, The Dry Leaf Nymph
Italian philosopher and painter (Rome 1898 - there 1974).
Initially dedicated to technical and mathematical studies (he was enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering), he soon followed his true vocation, art and philosophy, joining, after the end of the First World War (in which he participated as an artillery officer), to the Futurist movement of Balla and Marinetti (in 1919 he was present at the National Futurist Exhibition in Milan, in 1921 at the Exposition internationale d'art moderni in Geneva).
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Evola was the first in Italy to use the term abstract art to define his work. The birth of this key word of modernity is marked by an essay he published in 1920, Abstract Art
JULIUS EVOLA
(Rome, 1898 - Rome, 1974)
The Dry Leaf Nymph, 1918-21
Ink and watercolor on paper, 20x16 cm