Anzil
He was an important Friulan painter and engraver (Munchen 1911 - Udine 03.24.2000).
Anzil, comes from German Hansl, and it is the pseudonym of John Toffolo. He exhibited for the first time in Udine in the 1940. Friend of Fiorenzo Tomea, Anzil has been able to anticipate the season of Italian Neorealism. After the abstract style of his first works, during the post-war period he starts to explore the realism style even though in some works there is still a surrealism vein. He participated at the Venice Biennale and at the Rome Quadrennial.
In 1998 it has been published in Tolmezzo The Dante Anzil, work in which the painter as well as to illustrate some of the characters of Divine Comedy, engages in the translation of the verses of Dante in Friulian. Anzil has exhibited in Europe and America. Important were his participation at the Biennale in Venice and Berlin, the Quadrennial of Rome, to "Exhibitions of Italian painting" in Caracas, Bucharest and in several museums in Germany, at the Switzerland Prize, at the Michetti Prize etc.. In the nineties his works featured in major retrospectives exhibitions at Villa Varda, at the Galleria Sagittaria in Pordenone and at the Villa Manin of Passariano