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Biography: Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1868-1944, Austria/Italy) was born in Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but annexed by Italy following the First World War. His family was of Serbian ancestry. He gained his training through 14 years as an apprentice for a printing firm in Udine, Slovenia.
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In 1891 he moved to Milan to design posters for the Ricordi printing house, working under Adolfo Hohenstein (1854-1928). Shortly thereafter he was promoted to be their technical director, and then took over as artistic director when Hohenstein left.
Metlicovitz was instrumental in helping to develop Ricordi's trademark style, which has been referred to as "Bourgeois Realism." One of the artists working under him at Ricordi was fellow Triestian, Marcello Dudovich (1878-1962), whose style is clearly influenced by Metlicovitz. Following 1915, he focused primarilty on painting, primarily landscapes and portraits. He died in Ponte Lambro, Como, in Lombardy, in 1944, aged 76.
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