Artist

Luigi Russolo

1885–1947 · born in Portogruaro · died in Laveno-Mombello

Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, born in Portogruaro in 1885. He painted pictures of speed and light and invented the 'intonarumori', noise-making machines that played the sounds of the modern city. He died in Laveno-Mombello in 1947.