Giorgio de Chirico: Magische Wirklichkeit (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783777434742)

The exhibition Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical painting retraces the career and the artistic and philosophic influences of the artist Giorgio de Chirico from Munich to Turin, then to Paris where he discovered the artistic avant-garde of his era, and lastly Ferrare. The connections between the painter - discovered by Apollinaire and subsequently backed by the art dealer Paul Guillaume - and the Parisian cultural and literary circles will be highlighted as never before.

Born in Greece and trained in the fount of classical culture and late German Romanticism, de Chirico developed the foundations of a new artistic exploration alongside his younger brother Alberto Savinio. A student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as of 1908, he discovered the thinking of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer as well as the works of B cklin and Klinger. After traveling to Milan then Florence, it was in France, and more specifically Paris, as of autumn 1911, that he established his unique visual vocabulary through contact with the modernist artistic revolutions. He was quickly noticed by numerous artistic celebrities of the time, among whom Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Raynal, Andr Salmon, Andr Breton, Paul luard and Jean Paulhan were the first to take an interest in and promote his work.

Author: Annabelle Ggen-Lammers
ISBN-10: 3777434744
ISBN-13: 9783777434742
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2020
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 11.40h x 7.70w x 0.90d