Tito CORBELLA ✿

Tito Corbella (Pontremoli, 1885 - Rome, 1966) was an Italian painter and poster artist. Corbella was first and foremost a postcard designer. He was born in Pontremoli (in the province of Massa Carrara) and graduated in chemistry from the University of Padua. Later he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice where he was a pupil of Guglielmo Ciardi and Ettore Tito.

He was also a painter but he mainly dealt with illustration and poster design, not only in the field of advertising, he also worked for Ricordi in Milan and for the cinema in Rome, where he died in 1966. The postcards he designed mostly depicting famous at the time elegant women and couples in love.