Collezione Maramotti biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women to a young female artist working in the United Kingdom. Between 2006 and 2016 the winners of the prize were: Margaret Salmon; Hannah Rickards; Andrea Büttner; Laure Prouvost; Corin Sworn; and Emma Hart. Collezione Maramotti The Collezione Maramotti is the private collection of contemporary art of Achille Maramotti, who founded Max Mara. It is housed in the former premises of the company in Reggio Emilia, in Emilia Romagna in central Italy. It contains some two hundred works, and is open to visitors by appointment only. It also organises temporary exhibitions. Among the artists
Achille Formis school of Lombard Naturalism alongside painters like Eugenio Gignous, his friend since the years at the Brera. He took part in the annual Brera exhibitions and the Esposizione Nazionale Artistica of 1887 in Venice, where he returned in 1899 with a view of the countryside around Mantua. He also exhibited work in Berlin (1896) and Munich in 1901 and 1906, the year of his death in Milan. Achille Formis Achille Befani (1832–1906) was an Italian painter, best known as Achille Formis. He was born in Naples and embarked on a singing career there. This was abandoned in the early 1860s