User:Jboday/Aroldo Bonzagni

Aroldo Bonzagni was a painter, draftsman and illustrator born in Cento, Italy on 24 September 1887. He moved to Milan to attend the Accademia di Brera on a scholarship, joining the ranks of avant-garde artists and becoming friends with Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni and Luigi Russolo. He was extremely critical of the elite society of the times and signed the first Futurist Manifesto in 1910. Bonzagni died from influenza on 30 December 1918 in Milan.