Mario Rimoldi Modern Art Museum, Cortina d’Ampezzo

The Museum was inaugurated in 1974 following the substantial donation received by the Regole d’Ampezzo from Rosa Braun, widow of Mario Rimoldi, a collector from Cortina d’Ampezzo.

Artists such as de Pisis, De Chirico, Sironi, Campigli, and Music, frequent visitors to the Ampezzo basin, established a fruitful friendship with the collector.

In 1941, when the first International Collector’s Exhibition opened in Cortina, Mario Rimoldi’s collection was already defined: notable are the splendid de Pisis, Morandi, Semeghini, Rosai, Campigli, Sironi, Garbari, Severini, Tosi, and Guidi.

After the war, the collection incorporated experimental works by artists previously represented with figurative paintings. The collector showed interest in artists connected to the figurative tradition and Venetian environment, such as Cadorin, Cesetti, Saetti, Tomea, and Depero, while also embracing new movements emerging outside Veneto. The collection was enriched by Guttuso’s La Zolfara and works by protagonists of new experimentation like Corpora, Crippa, Dova, Morlotti, Music, Santomaso, Vedova. He also discovered foreign artists such as Kokoschka, Leger, Villon, Zadkine, and engaged with figures of the neo-avant-garde and abstract artists of the 1950s.