10.10.1901 – 11.01.1966

On October 10, 1901, one of the greatest sculptors-avant-gardists, Alberto Giacometti, was born. Art surrounded him from childhood – the father of the future sculptor – the famous Swiss artist Giovanni Giacometti, the first steps in painting Alberto did exactly by copying the work of his father. House Giacometti in Stamp was imbued with the spirit of creativity – furniture, carpets, chandeliers and other interior items were either made according to the sketches of his father, or created by himself.

After training at the Geneva School of Fine Arts, Alberto Giacometti travels to Italy, where he copies the works of the masters of the Italian rebellion, and then a twenty-year-old boy moves to Paris, the world capital of fine arts of the early 20th century.

The violent artistic life of the French capital turned the imagination of Alberto Giacometti. He is fond of fashionable avant-garde currents – cubism, Dadaism, surrealism. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the artistic community was actively interested in the primitive art of the undefiled civilizations of nations, actively exhibited African and South American ritual masks, totemic idols from Oceania.

Giacometti absorbed and artistically transformed the impressions obtained by making his work a revolution in sculpture, getting rid of the traditional plastic language, depriving his work of “volume.” His elongated, almost disembodied figures have a special sharp expressiveness, combining plastic art and graphics, he was able to make a three-dimensional two-dimensional.

In 1947, Alberto Giacometti created the “Pointing Man”, this sculpture became the most expensive ever sold at auction.