Alberto giacometti brief biography of william
Alberto giacometti brief biography of william hamilton.
Childhood and Youth
1901–1919
Alberto Giacometti is born on 10 October 1901 in the mountain village of Borgonovo near Stampa in the Val Bregaglia, canton of Graubünden.
His father is the well-known Post-Impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933); his mother Annetta Giacometti-Stampa (1871–1964) comes from one of the valley’s landed families.
Alberto giacometti brief biography of william
Alberto’s brother Diego is born in 1902. 1904 sees the birth of his sister Ottilia and the family moves to Stampa; his brother Bruno is born in 1907.
From 1915 to 1919 Giacometti is a pupil at a boarding school in Schiers, where a small studio is set up for him.
During 1918, both here and at home, he produces his first masterful drawings. In autumn 1919 he begins studying art in Geneva, attending the École des Beaux-Arts and the École des Arts Industriels, but drops out in 1920.
Training
1920–1924
In spring 1920 his father takes him to the Venice Biennale, where Giacometti is profou