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Escape From Egypt
Giovanni Giacometti — Swiss, 1868–1933 — Swiss Post-Impressionism
Giovanni Giacometti was a Swiss painter associated with the Post-Impressionist and early modernist currents that reshaped European painting around 1900. Born in Stampa, in the Bregaglia valley of Graubünden, he trained in Munich and Paris before returning to work primarily in his native alpine region. His mature paintings—mountain landscapes, family portraits, and domestic interiors—are marked by saturated, often divisionist color and a frank, unsentimental observation of light at altitude. He maintained close friendships with Cuno Amiet and Giovanni Segantini, and his work absorbed the lessons of Van Gogh and the Fauves without abandoning a rooted sense of place. He was the father of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti and the designer Bruno Giacometti, and his own reputation has steadily grown as a central figure of Swiss modernism.
Reproductions of Giovanni Giacometti's work from Cutler Miles are produced in our Pacific Northwest studio on archival cotton-rag paper using pigment-based inks rated for over a century of color stability. Available in standard reproduction sizes; custom sizing available on request.
