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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.
Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. Philosophical questions about the human condition, as well as existential and phenomenological debates played a significant role in his work. [5]
- Childhood
- Early Training
- Mature Period
- Late Period
- 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...
- Swiss
- October 10, 1901
- Stampa, Graubunden, Switzerland
- January 11, 1966
The sculpture is made in a single piece of bronze, whose unpolished surface gives an anguished, desolate, and skeletal appearance to the figure and his somewhat loping walk. On this occasion, Giacometti creates a solitary male figure of whom we can make out nothing but the most elementary forms.
L'Homme au doigt ([lɔm o dwa], "The Man with the Finger"; also called Pointing Man or Man Pointing) is a 1947 bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, that became the most expensive sculpture ever when it sold for US$141.3 million on May 11, 2015.
- Bronze
Alberto Giacometti Swiss. 1949. Not on view. Giacometti was born into a Swiss family of artists. His early work was informed by Surrealism and Cubism, but in 1947 he settled into producing the kind of expressionist sculpture for which he is best known.
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WALKING MAN I, 1960. 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.
