Draft:Jean-Pierre Groppx

Jean-Pierre Groppi (Groppx), a well known Italian painter, was born on 2 January 1943 in Livorno, Tuscany.

In 1966 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

In 1967 Jean-Pierre often went to the Louvre to copy old masterpieces. Later he returned to Tuscany.

During his paintings developpement he encounters his friends, some of these disappeared, Pietro Annigoni, Ferruccio Mataresi, Lorenzo Palazzi, Francesco Maria Pieri, Carlo Domenici, Novella Parigini, Harry Rosenthal.

He married in 1999 and opened an atelier in Cernobbio (on Lake Como) where he died suddenly on 4 September 2004. He has presented his art works among others at Villa d'Este (Cernobbio), Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni (Bellagio), Consulate of Italy Switzerland-Locarno and Consulate General of Lugano and many other locations.

Numerous art critics have written about him, including Indro Montanelli, Ottorino Villatora - Interventi critici 1980-2014

Jean-Pierre exposed in different part of the world but more in the Comasco region.