title: Umberto Pettinicchio
text: # Umberto Pettinicchio
  
  Umberto Pettinicchio (born 1943) is an Italian painter and sculptor.
  
  ## Biography
  
  He was born in $Torremaggiore^{:1451}$ and moved to Milan, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and had his first show in $1969.^{:103}$
  
  His early paintings were in the expressionist style but became increasingly more abstract. His 1981 painting The Death of the Bull is held in the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria.
  
  