Giuseppe Santomaso was born in Venice in 1907. He began his self-taught career, getting his training through Bevilacqua La Masa and Ca ‘Pesaro’s exhibitions. He enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts attending basic painting lessons that brought him closer to the post-impressionist model in vogue at that time in Venice. He started moving away from the Lagoon tradition in 1937, the year of his travels to Paris and Amsterdam, where the artist let himself be inspired by the impressionist and fauve movements of Braque, Matisse and Picasso.