Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)
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- Fame57.0
- Momentum0.5
- Global rank#179
- Switzerland rank#147
- Artists rank#250
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Lived 1901–1966, aged 65Switzerland
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His sculptures stretched human figures into impossibly thin vertical forms — or shrank them to fit in a matchbox. Either way, Giacometti was chasing the gap between what he saw and what he could make his hands do, and the doubt never left him.
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Born in Switzerland in 1901, Giacometti moved to Paris in 1922 and spent years working through Cubism and Surrealism before abandoning both around 1935 to focus on the human figure. Between 1938 and 1944, his sculptures shrank to a maximum of seven centimeters — he was trying to capture the actual distance between himself and his model, and the forms kept collapsing inward. After World War II came the work that defined him: those extreme, skeletal figures stretched impossibly tall and thin, caught in a space he described as imaginary yet real, tangible yet out of reach. He also painted, especi…
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