Discover sculptor, designer, painter Alberto Giacometti

Qualifications: sculptor, designer, painter, draftsperson, author
Ciuha 2009; Schneider 2009

Nationality/school: Swiss
Ciuha 2009

Born: Borgonova (Switzerland) 1901-10-10
Ciuha 2009

Deceased: Chur (Switzerland) 1966-01-11
Giacometti was buried in Borgonovo, with his parents (Ciuha 2009)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of the impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933); Elder brother of the artist Diego Giacometti (1902-1985), one of Alberto's most beloved models, and of the architect Bruno Giacometti (* 1907)

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99 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
3 hits in RKDlibrary as author

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1913 - 1966
active c. 1913-1966

Education: École des Beaux-Arts (Genève)

1919-1920 (Ciuha 2009); van 1920-1922 in Italië (Sonsbeek '55)
Académie de la Grande Chaumière (Parijs)

1922-1925 (Schneider 2009), onder Bourdelle (Sonsbeek 1966)
École normale d'enseignement du dessin (Parijs)

Ciuha 2009

Active in

Stampa 1913
eerste tekeningen in 1913; eerste bustes in 1914 (Ciuha 2009)
Zwitserland 1915 - 1919
Ciuha 2009
Genève (stad) 1919
Ciuha 2009
Venetië 1920 - 1921
reisde met zijn vader (Ciuha 2009)
Rome 1920 - 1921
verbleef een half jaar in Rome (Ciuha 2009)
Parijs 1922 - 1966
vestigde zich met atelier (Ciuha 2009)
Genève (stad) 1942 - 1945
verbleef in Geneve gedurende de bezetting van Frankrijk (Ciuha 2009)

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bourdelle, Antoine
Giacometti, Giovanni
Vibert, James
Schneider 2009 en Ciuha 2009
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Ashbee, Helen
Verdijk, Gerard
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Lipchitz, Jacques
Cézanne, Paul

Schneider 2009
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Gruber, Francis
Bohrmann, Karl
Armitage, Kenneth
Agostini, Peter
Uglow, Alan

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure, animal painting (genre), genre, landscape (genre), portrait, still life, biomorphic abstraction, geometric abstraction
Ciuha 2009; González 2006

Medium/technique: bronze, wood, marble, moulding plaster
Ciuha 2009
Product: vase, lamp
Ciuha 2009

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Surrealism
tot 1935 (Schneider 2009)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 99 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
3 hits in RKDlibrary as author

Arnhem 1955 , p. 13, nr. 63
Plüss/Tavel 1958-1967
Arnhem 1966A , p. 25, afb. p. 71
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 112
Saur 1992- , vol. 53 (2007), p. 139
Jost et al. 1998 , vol. 1, p. 394-395
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 6, p. 79
Saur 1992- , AKLONLINE (april 2011)

Tent.cat.'13 beeldhouwers uit Parijs', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1948
veiling New York, Christie's, 20 november 1986
veiling Parijs, (Ader Tajan), 14 sculptures - 4 peintures, 11 juli 1994
Fémininmasculin. Le sexe de l'art (tent.cat. Paris 1995) (NFM)
veiling Parijs, Briest, 20-06-1995
H. Bavelaar, Kroniek van kunst en kultuur, Leiden 1998
M. Spiegler, 'The Giacometti Legacy: A Struggle for Control', Artnews dl. 103/nr. 9, October 2004, p. 168-177
González 2006 (zie RKDlibrary)
Ciuha 2009 (zie RKDlibrary)
Schneider (zie RKDlibrary)
C. Pommereau, 'Giacometti & les Étrusques. Une confrontation justifiée?', Beaux Arts magazine 328 (2011), oktober, p. 88-91
C. Toibin. 'Alberto Giacometti', Tate Etc. no. 40, Summer 2017, p. 62-69

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

PDO-map: op Giacometti, Familie; zie afdeling MHK voor foto's gemaakt door V.S.P. Esser van beeldhouwwerken

Project: Modern sculpture

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Creation date: 1991-12-15; Last modified date: 2023-01-25

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