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- The Legacy of Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901 in the mountain hamlet of Borgonovo, in eastern Switzerland. He was the first of four children born to Giovanni Giacometti, a Post-Impressionist painter, and Annetta Giacometti-Stampa, whose family was among the area's prominent land owners. In addition to his father, several members of Giacometti's extended fami...
In 1915, Giacometti enrolled at the Evangelical School in the town of Schiers, where he continued to work in a small private studio. Later he enrolled at the École des Arts Industriels in Geneva, and studied painting, drawing and sculpture under the tutelage of Pointillistpainter David Estoppey and sculptor Maurice Sarkissoff. In May 1920, Giacomet...
By the 1930s, Giacometti had been warmly welcomed into Surrealist circles, and he became close to figures such as Man Ray, Joan Miró, André Masson and Max Ernst, as well as the movement's founders André Breton and Louis Aragon. But he also published work in Documents, the periodical produced by writer Georges Bataille, who was then putting forward ...
As Giacometti's style continued to mature into the 1950s and 60s, his bronze figures grew larger and more complex, ranging from his Woman of Venice II (1956) at nearly four feet tall, to Tall Woman II(1960), towering at close to nine feet. He also devoted more time to portraiture, in both painting and sculpture. His regular models included Diego an...
Both of the important phases of Giacometti's career yielded innovations that influenced a wide range of artists. His Surrealist sculpture of the 1930s, for instance, influenced Henry Moore, partly inspiring the Surrealismthat would be such an important component of Moore's practice throughout his life. It is certainly hard to imagine Moore's own in...
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- October 10, 1901
- Stampa, Graubunden, Switzerland
- January 11, 1966
News. Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss artist known for his totemic sculptures of elongated human figures. Giacometti established himself through works such as Head-Skull (1934), which explored psychology and death through stylized forms. “All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes ...
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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," December 12, 1989–April 1, 1990, unnumbered cat. (p. 256). London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," April 19–July 15, 1990, unnumbered cat. Martigny.
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Alberto Giacometti (born October 10, 1901, Borgonovo, Switzerland—died January 11, 1966, Chur) was a Swiss sculptor and painter, best known for his attenuated sculptures of solitary figures. His work has been compared to that of the existentialists in literature. Giacometti displayed precocious talent and was much encouraged by his father ...
Spoon Woman, 1926–27 (cast 1954) Alberto Giacometti; Walking Man II, 1960 Alberto Giacometti; Isaku Yanaihara, 1956 Alberto Giacometti; Tall Figure, 1947
Oct 10, 1901 - Jan 11, 1966. Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century.
