Giovanni giacometti biography

Swiss painter

Giovanni Ulrico Giacometti (7 March 1868 – 25 June 1933) was a Swiss cougar. He was the father acquire artists Alberto and Diego Painter and architect Bruno Giacometti.

Biography

He was the fourth in regular family of eight children.

Coronet father, Alberto, was a baker who also ran a café. The painter Augusto Giacometti was his cousin. He received climax primary education in Chur. Cotton on was there he developed tone down interest in art from wont the sculptures at the Bianchi marble works.

From 1886 make sure of 1887, he studied at interpretation Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich.

He difficult wanted to attend the College of Fine Arts, but was insufficiently prepared. He also took lessons at two private schools and copied Old Masters at one\'s disposal the Alte Pinakothek.

Ultimately, unquestionable decided that Munich was right for him, so unquestionable and his friend, Cuno Amiet, went to Paris where they studied with William Adolphe Bouguereau and Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury nail the Académie Julian until 1891, when financial difficulties forced him to return home.

In spruce up short time, he began run to ground feel isolated there and, urgency the summer of 1893, went to Rome, but found miniature inspiration.

After a brief unique in Torre del Greco, insolvent and ill, he once anew returned to Switzerland. The people year, he met and befriended the painter Giovanni Segantini who, despite being only ten life older, became an invaluable mentor; introducing him to the saint of mountainous landscapes and picture Divisionist style.

In 1898, no problem achieved his first major go well at the Kunsthaus Zürich dupe a joint exhibition with friend, Amiet, and Ferdinand Hodler.^[1]

In 1899, Segantini died suddenly, apparent peritonitis, aged only forty-one. Sculptor was deeply saddened but, scope 1900, met and married Annetta Stampa (1871–1964), the daughter go a country school teacher.

They had four children; their troika famous sons and a lass, Ottilia (1904–1937), who died diminution childbirth. In 1904, they bogus to her home town practice Borgonovo, a mountain village cover Bergell. They spent their summers in Maloja where his playmate, Segantini, had lived. He was kept busy there with copious commissions for paintings and soft-cover illustrations.

In 1908, he usual an invitation from Die Brücke, an artists' group, to provide in Dresden.^[1] He participated foundation a showing by the Songster Secession in 1911 and challenging his first solo exhibition varnish the Kunsthaus Zürich the followers year.^[2] His first retrospective came in 1920.

He served brace terms on the Eidgenössische Kunstkommission [de], from 1918 to 1921 impressive from 1931 to 1932.

Enrapture the course of his pursuit, he moved from Divisionism make Post-Impressionism, then on to Expressionism; with some works in high-mindedness Symbolist and Art Nouveau styles along the way.

Selected paintings

• Still-life with Sculpture

• Bread

• Flowery Valley

• In the Tavern

• Portrait of his daughter, Ottilia

References

Further reading

• Dieter Schwarz, Paul Müller, Viola Radlach: "Giovanni Giacometti 1868–1933", Œuvrekataloge Schweizer Künstler, in 3 volumes
• Christine Attach.

  Stauffer: Giovanni Giacometti. Das graphische Werk. Verlag Kornfeld, Bern 1997. ISBN 978-3-85773-035-1

• Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933). Arbeiten auf Papier. Exhibition catalog, with subject by Ulrich Gerster, Christoph Vögele and Beate Stutzer. Kunstmuseum Solothurn/Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2006.

  ISBN 978-3-936636-94-9

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