Luigi Mion

Luigi Mion was an Italian painter, active mainly in Venice painting genre subjects.

Biography

He was born in Kotor, Montenegro, at that time part of Austria-Hungary, to Guiseppe Mion and Maria Bogdanović, then moved to Treviso, Venice, married in 1895 Ida Leis Leimburg, and had a son, Guido Mion with first wife Maria Ferro.
Active in Venice. His main works are: Troppo tardi, exhibited in 1872; Mosca cieca, exhibited at the 1878 Universal Exhibition of Paris; Sbagliato, in 1879 at Monaco; La maschera veneziana exhibited at the Salon in 1879; Farfallina; Religione dello Famiglia; Le orfanelli; and Mamma mia. To Venice, in 1887, he displayed: Il Mattino; After the messa; Ai Vesperi; and In San Marco. The latter represent a realistic indoor vedute. he also painted Ragazza all Finestra now located in the civic library of Vercelli.