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The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher of Laguna Woods, California:
Giorgio
de Chirico was born in 1888 in Volos, capital of the Greek province of
Thessaly. His parents were Italian, his mother a former operetta
singer and his father a civil engineer who designed railroads in the
province of Thessaly. When his father died in 1905, his mother
took him and his brother to Munich where he studied at the Academy of
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