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Diego Giacometti

Diego Giacometti (1902 - 1985) was active/lived in France, Switzerland.  Diego Giacometti is known for Animal sculpture, furniture design.

Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) was a Swiss sculptor and designer, and the younger brother of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

Diego Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, a Swiss village near the Italian border.  Son of the painter Giovanni Giacometti, he grew up in a warm, convivial familial atmosphere amidst the animals of their farm.  In 1904, the family settled in nearby Stampa in the canton of Grisons.
After business studies in Basel and Saint-Gall, at age 25 he followed the advice of his mother Annetta and went to Paris to rejoin his brother Alberto, then a student of the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle at the Academy of the Grande Chaumière*.  All three of the Giacometti brothers went into the visual arts: Alberto and Diego into painting and sculpture, and Bruno into architecture.

The working relationship of Diego with Alberto was so close that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the work of Diego from that of Alberto, 13 months his senior.  They sh   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3564 characters.]  Artist bio

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