Italian painter Carlo Vitale studied at the University of Pavia. Later he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milano, Roma, and Firenze. He was a painter, illustrator and etcher who married Irma Schultz, a Finnish soprano singer. In 1939, both had to flee to Paris to flee from Nazi persecution, later moving on to Bern, when the Germans occupied Paris. After World War II Vitale was also active as an art teacher. Vitale dealt with the subject of boxing several times, and in 1936 portrayed the German boxer Max Schmeling.
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