Museo d’Arte Moderna Mario Rimoldi, 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, frequenters of 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 outlined: the splendid de Pisis, Morandi, Semeghini, Rosai, Campigli, Sironi, Garbari, Severini, Tosi, and Guidi stand out.

After the war, experimental works by artists already represented with figurative paintings entered the collection. The collector was interested in artists linked to the figurative trend and the Venetian environment, such as Cadorin, Cesetti, Saetti, Tomea, and Depero, also opening towards new movements forming outside Veneto. The collection was enriched with Guttuso’s La Zolfara and works by protagonists of the new experimentation, such as Corpora, Crippa, Dova, Morlotti, Music, Santomaso, Vedova. He also discovered foreign artists, like Kokoschka, Leger, Villon, Zadkine, and approached the protagonists of the neo-avant-gardes, the abstracts of the 1950s.