Gino De Finetti (9 May 1877 – 5 August 1955) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born in Istria, De Finetti had a childhood characterized by various transfers due to the work of his father, a railway engineer. After attending school in Trieste, he trained artistically in Munich and lived for a long time in Germany until 1934, the year in which the rise of the Nazi regime convinced him to return to Italy. He was a prolific illustrator, cartoonist and graphic designer. Biography Gino de Finetti was born in Pisino, Istria (now Pazin, Croatia), on 9 May 1877 (some sources indicate August 9) to Giovanni Battista de Finetti and Anna Radaelli. His father, a railway engineer, had noble origins and belonged to a family originally from Gradisca d'Isonzo, while his mother came from Roncade. At Gino's birth, the family was in Istria as his father supervised the construction of the railway linking Trieste to Pola. His father's occupation led the family to frequent relocations, and de Finetti spent his childhood among Tarvisio, Vienna, Gorizia, Innsbruck and Trieste (where they settled in 1884). From a very young age de Finetti showed an aptitude and passion for drawing, being particularly fond of the art of Tintoretto, and after classical studies in 1895 he moved to Munich where he first enrolled in the Technische Hochschule (technical high school) and in 1897 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. At the Munich academy he became a friend of Albert Weisgerber, and followed with particular attention the lessons of professor Heinrich von Zügel, with a focus on painting en plein air and on paintings depicting animals (especially horses).After completing his academic studies, De Finetti spent a period in Bohemia to devote himself to painting immersed in the wooded nature of that region. From 1901 to 1903 he was on military duty in Graz, Austria. After his military service, De Finetti returned to Munich, where he contributed his illustrations to the magazine Jugend. In 1904 he moved to Berlin, where he worked for the publishers Ullstein and Scherl and collaborated with numerous magazines and periodicals, both as an illustrator and as a cartoonist. He was also a collaborator of Max Reinhardt, contributing to the staging of some theater shows. In 1905 he made a trip to Paris where he came