Giovanni Giacometti
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
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.
Capolago with a view of the Corvatsch , around 1926
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
- Viola Radlach: Giacometti, Giovanni Ulrico. In: Sikart
- Publications by and about Giovanni Giacometti in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Giovanni Giacometti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Giovanni Giacometti - a role model for avant-garde artists by Anna Quirin, Deutschlandfunk , March 11, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Goltz
- ↑ Hans Goltz
- ^ Viola Radlach: Giacometti, Giovanni. In: Sikart , accessed on August 26, 2016.
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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 |