Giovanni Giacometti

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Self-portrait , 1909/10, Kunstmuseum Winterthur

Giovanni Giacometti (born March 7, 1868 in Stampa , † June 25, 1933 in Glion ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist . Together with his friend, the painter Cuno Amiet , he introduced the painting style of Post-Impressionism into Swiss art.

Life

Atelier Giacometti in Stampa, inscription on the third from the bottom bar

Giovanni Giacometti was the fourth of eight children of the married couple Alberto and Caterina Ottilia Giacometti-Santi. He studied from 1886 to 1887 in Munich and from 1888 to 1891 together with Cuno Amiet and Andrea Robbi under William Adolphe Bouguereau and Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian in Paris . He was influenced by the Fauves , Cuno Amiet, Paul Cézanne , Vincent van Gogh and at the beginning of his artistic career especially by Giovanni Segantini , who promoted him in Maloja from 1894 . Around 1900 he broke away from Segantini's Divisionist painting style and began to adopt the post-impressionist style of French painting.

Giacometti married Annetta, née Stampa (1871–1964) in 1900; their children were Alberto , Diego , Ottilia (1904–1937, married to Francis Berthoud) and Bruno Giacometti . Until 1904 the family lived in the mountain village of Borgonovo in Bergell ; she then moved to the nearby Stampa in a house whose stable Giovanni Giacometti used as a studio. The family regularly spent the summer in Capolago near Maloja . In 1908 Giacometti received an invitation to exhibit together with the artists of the Brücke artist group in Dresden . From 1906 to 1911 he painted in an expressive style. In 1912 he had an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich .

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Giacometti's work consists of impressionist landscape painting and portraits of his family and neighboring personalities such as the painter Elvezia Michel-Baldini . Some of his paintings are also in the style of symbolism . His works are represented in most Swiss museums.

  • Segantini on the death bed, 1899

  • Autumn evening, 1903

  • The bread, 1908

  • Portrait of Annetta Giacometti, 1911

  • Family portrait under the elder tree, 1911

  • Portrait of Ottilia Giacometti, 1912

  • Capolago with a view of the Corvatsch , around 1926

  • Still life with plastic (portrait of Alberto Giacometti), 1929

literature

  • Elisabeth Ellenberger: Giovanni Giacometti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 11, 2006 , accessed February 20, 2020 .
  • Dieter Schwarz, Paul Müller, Viola Radlach: Giovanni Giacometti 1868–1933. 3 volumes. Zurich 1996/1997 (catalogs of works by Swiss artists, volume 16 / I / II – 1/2).
  • Christine E. Stauffer: Giovanni Giacometti. The graphic work. Kornfeld Publishing House, Bern 1997.
  • Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933). Works on paper. Exhibition catalog, with texts by Ulrich Gerster, Christoph Vögele and Beat Stutzer. Solothurn Art Museum / Bündner Art Museum , Chur. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2006.

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Giacometti  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Goltz
  2. ↑ Hans Goltz
  3. ^ Viola Radlach: Giacometti, Giovanni. In: Sikart , accessed on August 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Giacometti, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Stampa
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1933
Place of death Glion