Selbstbildnis
1921
on displayAlberto Giacometti1901 Borgonovo bei Stampa – 1966 Chur
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This key work of Alberto’s early, highly coloured painting in which he engages with his father’s art shows him in the latter’s studio in Stampa; the printing press can be made out in the background. The stylization of the head and the posture draw on Egyptian and Ancient Greek art.
This self-portrait at the age of twenty signals both the culmination and end-point of Giacometti’s early painting. The opulent, densely interwoven colour values take their cue from Giovanni Giacometti’s pictures of the period around 1910–1912; but the tense posture speaks to a very different artistic temperament that brings to mind the similarly stringent early self-portrayal of Ferdinand Hodler.
Also known as
Self-Portrait
Autoportrait
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 82.5 x 70 cm
Inventory number
GS 062
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, 1965