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Biography Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti was born on 10 October, 1901 in Borgonovo (Stampa), a little village in Italian-speaking Switzerland. His father, Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933), was a well-known Swiss neo-impressionist painter. Giovanni Giacometti and Annetta Stampa had three other children: Diego (1902–1985), Ottilia (1904–1937) and Bruno (1907–2012). The painters Cuno Amiet and Ferdinand Hodler were the godparents of Alberto and Bruno.
1904
The family moved to a house in Stampa where Giovanni set up his studio.
Around 1910
Giovanni acquired a summer house in Maloja, on Lake Sils, where he set up a second studio. Alberto added the finishing touches to a bust of his father made by Auguste de Niederhäusern-Rodo, by painting on it—his first attempt at fusing sculpture and painting. He made his first copies of Albrecht Dürer’s engravings.
1914–15
Alberto Giacometti spent his childhood in Stampa. While very young,
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Giacometti: A Biography In Pictures - Hardcover
From Library Journal
The Swiss sculptor/painter Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) is one of the most universally admired artists of the century. An early postmodernist with an extremely personal vision, he is best known for the gaunt, attenuated standing bronze figures he made during the final 20 years of his life. The critic Robert Hughes has written that the vast space created around them by their own etiolation is "the visual metaphor of Existentialist Man." This book is a piecemeal assemblage of paragraph-long quotations, from the artist and others, about Giacometti's life and artistic struggles. The material has been arranged chronologically and interspersed with some interesting snapshots of him at work in the studio (a Gitane invariably gripped in his plaster-stippled fingers) and reproductions of individual works. Although such a patchwork compilation is better suited to Studs Terkel or a fan biography, because it is Giacometti it
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Alberto Giacometti
Biography
29 Dec 2017
1. A youth spent in a studio
Alberto Giacometti grew up in Switzerland in the Val Bregaglia alpine valley, a few kilometers from the Swiss-Italian border. His father, Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933) was an impressionist painter esteemed by Swiss collectors and artists. He shared his thoughts with his son on art and the nature of art.
27 Dec 2017
2. The encounter with the arts of Africa and Oceania
Giacometti’s work shows the influence of African and Oceanian sculpture. When the young artist developed an interest in African art in 1926, it was no longer a novelty for the modern artists of the previous generation (Picasso, Derain); it had even become popularized to the point of becoming decorative.
07 Dec 2017