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(1901-1966) Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker, born near the Italian border in Borgonovo. When Alberto showed real interest in the arts, he was sent to the School of Fine Arts in Geneva. In 1922 he studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle in Paris. Giacometti experimented with cubism and surrealism and came to be one of the leading surrealist sculptors. Among his associates were Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso and Balthus. Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale which brought him worldwide fame in the 1960s. Giacometti’s works were shown in a number of large exhibitions throughout Europe in his later years. Since he was internationally renowned, he traveled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the New York Museum of Modern Art despite his health. Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease and chronic bronchitis at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. His works are exhibited in numerous public collections, including the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. He created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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