The avant-garde of the twenties and thirties, in particular
Braque and
Picasso, had an immense influence on him for the rest of his life. The outbreak of the
Second World War saw him detained in
Edinburgh Castle, as an
enemy alien, but he was released and allowed to serve as a
conscientious objector in the
Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war Morrocco had a brief spell teaching evening classes. From 1950 onwards Morrocco spent his professional life in
Dundee, as Head of the School of Painting at the
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, which is now part of the
University of Dundee. Morrocco was prodigiously productive. He had a spectacular retirement, producing some of his most vigorous work in the period from 1982 to his death. Even late in his life and seriously ill, he would commit himself to exhibitions of thirty or forty new works in a year. Morrocco and his wife Vera Mercer had three children, Leon, Laurie and Annalisa. Leon followed in his father's footsteps and became an established artist in his own right. Laurie is a conservator of early panel paintings and Annalisa a designer and illustrator. Alberto died at his home, Binrock House in Dundee, on 10 March 1998. ==Principal works==