Color and I. Augusto Giacometti

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Augusto Giacometti belongs to the famous Giacometti family dynasty of painters from Stampa, a village in Val Bregaglia. The house of Augusto Giacometti’s parents is situated only a short distance from the house and studio in which his second cousin Giovanni Giacometti lived, his senior by nine-years and the father of Alberto Giacometti. After training to become a drawing teacher at the arts school in Zurich, Augusto Giacometti studied art in Paris from 1897 to 1901. From 1902 to 1915 he lived and worked in Florence. In 1915 he finally settled in Zurich. 

Already his early work, which still pursued Jugendstil goals, displays Giacometti’s unmistakable coloristic talent. He is a pioneer of abstract painting in his exhaustive study of the rules and characteristics of color. Giacometti made a major contribution to modernism with landscape pictures and portraits as well as with his “chromatic fantasies”, which he executed in the period from 1910 to 1920. As an artist who was always receptive to innovation he cultivated a lively exchange with avant-garde movements and artists’ groups of the time. In Italy he was in touch with the futurists and, in Zurich, with the Dadaists.

The exhibition will, however, also focus on his later work, on the magnificently colored still-lives of flowers, on bright and cheerful landscapes and light-filled city views. The things he depicts in his paintings are rendered in mystically intoxicating colors, radiant in exotic tints against a largely dark background. And, not least, the artist’s glass paintings with their purity of light and color will be on view.

Kunstmuseum Bern
Hodlerstrasse 12
3000 Bern
Switzerland
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Color and I. Augusto Giacometti Kunstmuseum Bern Main address: Kunstmuseum Bern Hodlerstrasse 12 3000 Bern, Switzerland Kunstmuseum Bern Hodlerstrasse 12 3000 Bern, Switzerland Augusto Giacometti belongs to the famous Giacometti family dynasty of painters from Stampa, a village in Val Bregaglia. The house of Augusto Giacometti’s parents is situated only a short distance from the house and studio in which his second cousin Giovanni Giacometti lived, his senior by nine-years and the father of Alberto Giacometti. After training to become a drawing teacher at the arts school in Zurich, Augusto Giacometti studied art in Paris from 1897 to 1901. From 1902 to 1915 he lived and worked in Florence. In 1915 he finally settled in Zurich. 

Already his early work, which still pursued Jugendstil goals, displays Giacometti’s unmistakable coloristic talent. He is a pioneer of abstract painting in his exhaustive study of the rules and characteristics of color. Giacometti made a major contribution to modernism with landscape pictures and portraits as well as with his “chromatic fantasies”, which he executed in the period from 1910 to 1920. As an artist who was always receptive to innovation he cultivated a lively exchange with avant-garde movements and artists’ groups of the time. In Italy he was in touch with the futurists and, in Zurich, with the Dadaists.

The exhibition will, however, also focus on his later work, on the magnificently colored still-lives of flowers, on bright and cheerful landscapes and light-filled city views. The things he depicts in his paintings are rendered in mystically intoxicating colors, radiant in exotic tints against a largely dark background. And, not least, the artist’s glass paintings with their purity of light and color will be on view.
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