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Giovanni Giacometti was born at Stampa, near Grisons, Switzerland in
1868. He was a member of a very illustrious family that
included Augusto Giacometti, his nephew, who was one of the claimants
to the honor of having produced the first deliberately abstract works
of art. His sons were Alberto Giacometti and Diego, who lived his
life as Alberto’s assistant.
He studied at the
Academy of Art in Munich in the years 1886 and 1887 and at the Academie
Julian in Paris. In 1893 he settled in Stampa. He was an
individualistic and accomplished painter in the late-impressionist
manner. He died in 1933.
Written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California. Sources include:
The Oxford Companion to 20th Century Art, edited by Harold Osborne
Robert Hughes in Time Magazine, April 1974
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