Alberto Giacometti

(Borgonovo, Switzerland, October 10, 1901 - Chur, Switzerland, January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor and painter.
Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, Val Bregaglia, in Switzerland, near the Italian border, where he grew up in an environment of artists. His father, Giovanni Giacometti, had been an Impressionist painter, while his godfather, Cuno Amiet, was a Fauvist.

After completing secondary education, he moved to Geneva to study painting, drawing and sculpture at the School of Fine Arts and to Paris, in 1922, to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse under the tutelage of an associate of Rodin. , the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. It was there that Giacometti experimented with cubism. However, he was more attracted to the surrealist movement and by 1927, after his brother Diego became his assistant, Alberto had begun to show his first surrealist sculptures in the Tuileries Hall. Shortly after, he was already considered one of the most important surrealist sculptors of the time.