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Giacometti, Alberto e Diego: a história

Diego Giacometti

Diego Giacometti (15 November 1902 – 15 July 1985) was a Swiss sculptor and designer, and the younger brother of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti . 2 Alberto and Diego. 3 Work of Diego Giacometti. 6 External links. Diego Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, a Swiss village near the Italian border. Son of Annetta Stampa and the painter Giovanni ...

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (UK: ˌ dʒ æ k ə ˈ m ɛ t i , US: ˌ dʒ ɑː k , Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art.. Giacometti was one of the most important ...

giacometti, alberto tête de diego ||| bust ||| sotheby's

Diego Giacometti remained Alberto’s primary model throughout the artist’s career and it was through numerous representations of his brother, translated both to paper and into bronze, that Alberto strove to demystify all that was concealed within a human head.

Alberto Giacometti (1901 1966) , Tête de Diego sur socle

The plaster of the present sculpture is located at the Kunstmuseum, Bern. Alberto Giacometti conceived Tête de Diego sur socle circa 1955, in a series of a half dozen heads and busts of his brother that dramatically manifest the artist’s most radical development in his sculpture since the visionary, attenuated, and weightless figures he had created during the late 1940s.

giacometti, alberto buste de diego ||| bust ||| sotheby's

Giacometti’s Buste de Diego is a highly expressive depiction of the artist’s brother and primary model, Diego. Of all the artist’s representations of the human figure, it is his portraits of Diego that are the most formally radical and visually engaging sculptures.