Giovanni Sesto Menghi (1907–1990) was an Italian painter known for depiction of still-life subjects and portraits.
Biography He was born in Rimini to a family originally from Longiano. He studied in Bologna under Guido Federico Lucchini, a portrait painter. Gaining a stipend from Rimini, between 1935 and 1939, he studied initially in Rome and Florence, and made a first career as a manuscript illuminator. He then began painting oil canvases in an impressionist style. He was in the army but refused to fight for the fascist army, and joined partisan forces in Longiano and Gambettola. He returned to live and work as a painter in Rimini.Terre del Rubicone website, short biography.
In the late 1930s, he met Filippo de Pisis who influenced him. He won some awards in Bergamo and Rome in 1942 and early 1943.Province of Forli Cesena Short biography citing as sources Mostra personale del pittore Giovanni Sesto Menghi, 1932-1962, Catalogue of the exhibition; Presentation by M. Moretti, Sala delle Colonne, (Rimini, 1962); M. Azzolini (a cura), XXII Personal exhibition by G. Sesto Menghi, catalogue, Palazzo del Podestà, (Rimini, 1971).
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