He was a student and collaborator of
Alceo Dossena in
Parma and
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and with his teacher he worked as sculptor in Mossina palace (ex
Ducal Palace of Guastalla) and for other commissions. He created busts of historical figures, such as
Ferrante Gonzaga,
Isabella di Capua,
Lucrezia Borgia, and commemorative monuments, such as the one for dead soldiers of
the Great War in San Girolamo di Guastalla. After taking part in World War I, he married Luigia Maria Olga Rizzi (1895-1947) and settled in Guastalla in Martyrs of Belfiore street where in 1933 he founded, with friends, artists and writers, the "Pia cantina di San Francese". In 1939 he presented his works at the 1st Art Exhibition at the Technical Institute of Guastalla. In the interwar years he devoted himself to restoration, classical sculpture and cemetery tombstones for churches in the province of
Reggio Emilia and
Brescia. In the second half of the 1940s his beloved son Guido, who was also one of Ligabue's best friends, died. In the following decades he continued to show his paintings in collective exhibitions: in 1959 at Galleria S. Babila in
Milan with Ligabue and , in 1962, 1965 and 1966 at the Casa d'arte di Guastalla and in the following years in Italy in
Luzzara,
Biella,
Correggio,
Mirandola,
Brescia,
Palazzolo sull'Oglio,
Suzzara,
Mantua,
Bologna,
Prato,
Ancona,
Rome,
Reggio Emilia and abroad in
Lugano and
Zagabria. His life was marked by a sincere friendship with
Antonio Ligabue who recognized to him only the title of "friend" in fact in 1941 Mozzali hosted him in his home in
Guastalla and took on the responsibility of getting him out of the psychiatric hospital. Ligabue could have instinctively approached sculpture but it was Andrea Mozzali, an incredible master of every plastic technique, who encouraged if not initiated him to sculpture. In fact in the second half of the 40s and in the 50s Ligabue's sculptures are more articulated with surfaces minutely marked in the fur and with more attention to details. == Artwork ==