Giovanni Giacometti
Giovanni Giacometti ( born March 7, 1868 in Stampa, † June 25, 1933 in Glion ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist. He introduced along with his friend, the painter Cuno Amiet, the painting style of Post-Impressionism in the Swiss art.
Life
Giovanni Giacometti was the fourth of eight children of the couple, Alberto and Caterina Ottilia Giacometti Santi. He studied from 1886 to 1887 in Munich, and from 1888 to 1891 along with Cuno Amiet and Andrea Robbi at William Adolphe Bouguereau and Joseph Nicolas Robert -Fleury at the Academie Julian in Paris. He was influenced by the Fauves, Cuno Amiet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and the beginning of his artistic career, particularly by Giovanni Segantini, who promoted him from 1894 in Maloja. In 1900 he broke away from the Divisionist Segantini painting and began to take on the post-impressionist style of French painting.
Giacometti married in 1900 Annetta, born Stampa ( 1871-1964 ); the children were Alberto, Diego, Ottilia (1904-1937) and Bruno Giacometti. By 1904 the family lived in the mountain village of Borgonovo in Bergell; she subsequently moved to the nearby Stampa in a house whose stable Giovanni Giacometti used as a studio. During the summer the family spent regularly in Capolago at Maloja. In 1908, Giacometti was invited to exhibit together with the artists of the artists group Die Brücke in Dresden. In the years 1906 to 1911 he painted in an expressive style. In 1912 he had an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich.
Work
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 held in the style of symbolism. His work is represented in most Swiss museums.
Autumn Evening, 1903
The bread, 1908
Annetta Giacometti Portrait, 1911
Family portrait under the elder tree, 1911
Portrait Ottilia Giacometti, 1912
Capolago overlooking the Corvatsch, 1926
Still Life with plastic ( Alberto Giacometti portrait ), 1929