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Osvaldo Ballerio
( Milan 1870 - Azzate 1942 )
 

He studies and gets his  diploma at Accademia in Brera , Milan, where   G. Bestini is his teacher. He is  remembered as a clever decorator of several churches in the Valley of Intelvi. He was a skilful poster and black and white humorous comic strips designer. He realized and signed lots of commemorative post cards, among which the famous one of  1904, printed for the birth of the King  Umberto II  Savoia.


( translation by Irene De Angelis
Curtis )