Diego Giacometti, born the 15th November 1902 in Borgonovo (Graubünden) and died the July 15th, 1985 in Paris, is a Swiss sculptor and designer, younger brother of Alberto Giacometti.
Diego Giacometti was born in Switzerland in 1902 in Borgonovo, a village near the Italian border in the Bregaglia Valley. Son of the painter Giovanni Giacometti, A...
Diego Giacometti, born the 15th November 1902 in Borgonovo (Graubünden) and died the July 15th, 1985 in Paris, is a Swiss sculptor and designer, younger brother of Alberto Giacometti.
Diego Giacometti was born in Switzerland in 1902 in Borgonovo, a village near the Italian border in the Bregaglia Valley. Son of the painter Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti's brother, he grew up in a protected family atmosphere, warm and friendly among the animals of their farm. In 1904 the family moved to Stampa in the canton of Graubünden.
After studying business in Basel and St. Gallen, he joined twenty-five years, on the advice of his mother Annetta, his brother Alberto in Paris. Alberto Giacometti was then student of the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. The three Giacometti son are moving to the visual arts: Alberto and Diego to painting and sculpture, and Bruno (1907-2012) to architecture.
His sculptures are sometimes linked to a picturesque or amusing motivation.
The Ostrich eg owes its existence to the fact that a friend of Diego, Professor Jean-Paul Binet, not knowing what to do with an ostrich egg, told Diego that has integrated naturally within an ostrich imagined by him. Animal art is extremely rich, Diego Giacometti like to represent alongside the more familiar animals, animals that symbolize strength, power, beauty, such as its heads of lion, wolf, or the horse.
It uses bronze, a material that allows to work carefully about it, thanks to its elasticity. These animals require a specific melting technology, often expensive as the lost wax technique. The desire to reconnect with the high quality of the best productions of the past inspire the man who was nicknamed the ace of patinas to contribute throughout his life to celebrate animals with this skill that has made it famous.
After the death of Alberto in 1966, Diego redoubled work, realizing significant work for renowned designers such as Georges Geffroy, Henri Samuel, or movable sets in exceptional public places, the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the Marc Chagall Museum in Nice, or the monumental control the Picasso museum in the Hôtel Salé in Paris. It was only after the death of Alberto Diego became famous. In Le Figaro on 13th September 2007, Patrick Grainville Commenting on this belated recognition: "This is an Eden Adam pets, plant fancies he sculpts and which can not fully recognize poetry after the death of the elder. »
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