Augusto Giacometti

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Self-Portrait (1945)

Antonio Augusto Giacometti (born August 16, 1877 in Stampa , Bergell , † June 9, 1947 in Zurich ) was a Swiss painter . He is regarded as an outstanding painter in the succession of Art Nouveau and Symbolism , as a innovator of glass painting and an exponent of monumental wall painting and designer of posters that have become popular .

life and work

Birthplace in Stampa

Augusto Giacometti is part of the famous Giacometti painting dynasty . Growing up just a few meters from his cousin Giovanni Giacometti's house , he began to devote himself to painting at an early age. He completed his training as a drawing teacher between 1894 and 1897 at the Zurich School of Applied Arts . After studying with Eugène Grasset in Paris from 1897 to 1901, as well as residing in Florence and Zurich , he finally settled in Zurich from 1915.

In 1917 Giacometti met the Dadaists Tristan Tzara , Marcel Janco , Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hugo Ball . He took part in the 8th Dada soirée in the Zurich Kaufleutensaal and became a member of the artist group “Das Neue Leben” (1918–1920).

Giacometti's tombstone in Borgonovo

With the execution of his design for the entrance hall of the police station in Amtshaus I in Zurich between 1923 and 1925, Giacometti succeeded in one of his most important works, also known as the Giacometti Hall . Thanks to this order, which immediately attracted a lot of attention, the way to further important commissioned work was paved for him.

He was one of the first artists of the 20th century who gave painting almost complete autonomy and dared to take the step into non-representationalism. Giacometti subsequently became a great colorist . On his tombstone it says: "Qui riposa il maestro dei colori" (German: "Here the master of colors rests").

In 1929 he created the colored glass window in the east wall of the Protestant town church in Frauenfeld, in 1933 the choir windows in the Grossmünster in Zurich, in 1937 the choir windows of the Adelboden village church and in 1945 a church window in the Fraumünster in Zurich.

Both stylistically and in the choice of his motifs, Giacometti had a great influence on the German painter August Babberger .

gallery

  • Works by Giacometti

  • Italian landscape (1915)

  • In Bergell (1915)

  • Still life with ranunculus (1917)

  • Design I (1918)

  • In the Augusto Giacometti studio (1939)

  • Giacometti Hall in the Police Station Amtshaus I in Zurich (1923–1925)

  • Giacometti's Window in the Choir of the Great Minster in Zurich (1933)

  • Stained glass window in the church of S. Giorgio near Borgonovo (1935), where Giacometti is buried

  • Stained glass window in the Fraumünster in Zurich: Heavenly Paradise (1945)

  • St. Johann in Davos , Giacometti window

Exhibitions

literature

Web links

Commons : Augusto Giacometti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augusto Giacomett estate , sik-isea.ch, accessed on June 20, 2012
  2. ↑ See Sikart web link
  3. ^ Erwin Poeschel, Architecture and Art, 1926: The frescoes by Augusto Giacometti in the Amsthaus in Zurich. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on July 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Giacometti, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Stampa
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1947
Place of death Zurich