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2. www.theartstory.org › artist › giacometti-albertoAlberto Giacometti Sculptures+, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory

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   Alberto Giacometti's remarkable career traces the shifting enthusiasms of European art before and after the Second World War. As a Surrealist in the 1930s, he devised innovative sculptural forms, sometimes reminiscent of toys and games.

   • Nationality: Swiss
   • Birth Date: October 10, 1901

   • Place Of Birth: Stampa, Graubunden, Switzerland
   • Death Date: January 11, 1966

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   Browse and buy sculptures, drawings and paintings by Alberto Giacometti, check auction results and learn about their history.

4. www.nga.gov › collection › artist-infoAlberto Giacometti - National Gallery of Art

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   Music Programs. Audio/Video. Free Images for Download. Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. West Building. 6th St and Constitution Ave NW. Enter or exit from Constitution Avenue, 4th Street, 7th Street, or Madison Drive on the National Mall. East Building. 4th St and Constitution Ave NW.

5. www.unesco.org › artcollection › NavigationActionGIACOMETTI, Alberto (1901 - 1966) - UNESCO

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   Bronze sculpture, inscribed 'Alberto Giacometti' and 'Epreuve de l'UNESCO' (UNESCO proof) on the base; with foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris. 183 x 25.5 x 95 cm. Date of entry at UNESCO December 1970.

6. www.tate.org.uk › alberto-giacometti-colm-toibinAlberto Giacometti Breathing Life into Bronze - Tate

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   Jun 5, 2017 · In advance of his retrospective at Tate Modern, Tate Etc. explores the life and work of the artist whose sculptures were filled with 'iconic dignity, a stillness, a solitariness, a sense of a dense inner life'. Alberto Giacometti modelling a bust in his studio in Stampa, Switzerland in 1965, photographed by Ernst Scheidegger.

7. hirshhorn.si.edu › explore › in-depth-alberto-giacomettiIn Depth: Alberto - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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   Giacometti’s postwar figure sculptures had skeletal bodies with gouged surfaces that surpassed the expressiveness of Rodin. The combination of fixed frontal stares and ravaged surfaces effectively keep the viewer at a distance, for seen up close the features dissolve into daubs and irregular textures.

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   What is Alberto Giacometti sculpture?

   • Bronze sculpture, inscribed 'Alberto Giacometti' and 'Epreuve de l'UNESCO' (UNESCO proof) on the base; with foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris. Acquisition made by UNESCO in 1969. Alberto Giacometti created a filiform and stylized figure, whose limbs seem to stretch out endlessly, as a symbol of the human being.

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   How did Giacometti develop his art?

   • From the mid-1930s through World War II, the artist struggled to convey in sculpture his visual concept of a model in empty space at a far distance, a preoccupation that would develop into his mature style. Giacometti’s postwar figure sculptures had skeletal bodies with gouged surfaces that surpassed the expressiveness of Rodin.

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   Who is Alberto Giacometti?

   • Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901 in the town of Borgonovo, near Stampa, Switzerland. The son of the Post-Impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti, the artist started drawing and painting at an early age, executing his first sculptures between 1913 and 1915.

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   When did Giovanni Giacometti start painting?

   • The son of the Post-Impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti, the artist started drawing and painting at an early age, executing his first sculptures between 1913 and 1915. In 1922, he travelled to Paris to enrol at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he studied under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle.

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9. www.metmuseum.org › art › collectionAlberto Giacometti | Annette, VI - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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   Artist: Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, Borgonovo 1901–1966 Chur) Date: 1962. Medium: Bronze. Edition: 5/6. Dimensions: H. 25-7/8, W. 10-1/2, D. 7-1/2 inches (65.7 x 26.7 x 19.1 cm.) Classification: Sculpture. Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Zimmerman, 1981. Accession Number: 1981.491.