Biography

LOUIS TOFFOLI 1907 – 1999

He was born in Triesta ( Italy) on 16 October 1907 of an Italian father and a Slovenian mother .

He attended an evenig class in the Triesta Academy of Fine Arts while he was first a blacksmith , then a tailor.

When facism arose in Italy, he was driven to take flight. He settled down in Paris where he worked for a famous fashion designer and taught in the local Clothing Trade Union.

In 1934, he decided to live in Charenton-Le-Pont (France ,Val-de-Marne) and stayed there until he died.

Only after the Second World War he devoted himself to painting and set up his first personal exhibitions and early travels around the world ( Yougoslavia , Spain , Brazil , Israel , the USA , Mexico , China…) .

He learnt the technique of Lithography from the most skilled Parisian workshops.

From the 70s on , Louis TOFFOLI has been considered as an acknowledged painter and his private exhibitions have been moving on worldwide ever since.

Aubusson weavers have been weaving tapestries inspired from his paintings since 1976 (about 1500 models) and several films and TV programmes related to his work have been broadcast .

A museum dedicated to him that houses about one hundred paintings was inaugurated in 1995 in Charenton -Le-Pont .

Besides , many museums and collections are housing TOFFOLI's paintings (Germany , Brazil , Spain ,Holland, Israel , the USA , Portugal… )