Augusto giacometti biography
- He grew up near the home and studio of his cousin Giovanni Giacometti, and devoted himself to painting from a young age.
- Augusto Giacometti was a Swiss painter from Stampa, Graubünden, cousin of Giovanni Giacometti who was the father of Alberto, Diego and Bruno Giacometti.
- He was born in Stampa in 1877, and was the second cousin of the painter Giovanni Giacometti.
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“Augusto Giacometti – The Biography” Book Vernissage with author Marco Giacometti
14.10.2022
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the death of the artist Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947), Suvretta House remembers the representative of the artist family from the Bregaglia, who occupied a special position in various aspects.
For family reasons, he had to leave his home valley at an early age and became a city dweller in Zurich. Like his cousin Giovanni and his great-nephew Alberto, he was an outstanding painter and innovator of stained glass.
Together with Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), he is considered as a pioneer of abstract art. The newly published book makes it possible for the first time to follow the development of Augusto Giacometti’s work and offers insight into his thinking.
The book is based on years of research into more than 900 of the artist’s writings from the 1930s, many of them previously unpublished.
Chasper Pult will present the book in conversation with Marco Giacometti.
Friday, 14th October 2022
6.00 pm: Sho 1877 - 1947 Augusto Giacometti was born in Val Bregaglia, in Stampa (Graubünden), in 1877. His second cousin is the painter Giovanni Giacometti, his senior by nine years and the father of Alberto, Bruno and Diego. At the age of twenty, Augusto left his native village in order to take art classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule of Zurich before going up to Paris, where he studied under Eugène Grasset at the École nationale des arts décoratifs. Stamped by Grasset’s theories, notably his “ La Plante et ses applications ornementales ” (Plants and Their Ornamental Applications), Giacometti’s painting quickly assimilated the vocabulary of Jugendstil and the precepts of William Morris. Augusto Giacometti was a Swiss artist who was born in 1877. Copyright ©backaid.pages.dev 2025•
Augusto Giacometti
Nature and the riches of the plant world became the starting point for the artist’s formal experiments. Then, as he gradually freed himself from that ornamental art, Giacometti developed a painting style made up of different dabs of colour that left the canvas untouched in places to create breathing spaces which alternate with thick, fragmented applications of pigment.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
How much does an Augusto Giacometti cost?
Augusto Giacometti's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 225 USD to 1,253,739 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.What is Augusto Giacometti's most expensive painting?
Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,253,739 USD for BERGDORF (HAUS UND GARTEN IN STAMPA) MOUNTAIN VILLAGE (HOUSE AND GARDEN IN STAMPA), sold at Sotheby's Zurich in 2009. In the past 12 months, his artworks have averaged 30,021 USD.Where can I see Augusto Giacometti's works?
His work is currently being shown at MASI Lugano, LAC . Numerous key galleries and museums such as Aargauer Kunsthaus have featured Augusto Giacometti's work in the past.Augusto Giacometti in the news
Augusto Giacometti has been featured in articles for Wallpaper , Whitehot Magazine and Art Viewer. The most recent article is Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles presents the exhibition Van Gogh and