PIZ CORVATSCH PEINT PAR GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI

 

GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI (1868-1933)
Piz Corvatsch (3 451 m - 11 322 ft)
Suisse (Grisons)

In "Capolago avec vue sur Corvatsch", vers 1926, Collection privée

Le peintre
Giovanni Giacometti était un peintre suisse, le père du célèbre peintre et sculpteur Alberto Giacometti, et de Diego Giacometti, le designer de meubles ainsi que le père de l'architecte Bruno Giacometti ! En 1886, il étudie la peinture à l'École des arts décoratifs de Munich, où il rencontre Cuno Amiet l'année suivante. Tous deux décident de poursuivre leurs études à Paris, en octobre s'inscrit à l'Académie Julian, où Giacometti reste jusqu'en 1891.
En 1893, peu après son retour en Suisse, à Bergell, il se lie d'amitié avec Giovanni Segantini, son aîné de dix ans, qui a une grande influence sur son œuvre en l'ouvrant à la beauté des paysages montagnards et aux règles du divisionnisme. Après sa mort subite en 1899, Giacometti rencontre Ferdinand Hodler, qui lui apprend à créer une composition rigoureuse et ornementale par une utilisation appropriée des formes et des couleurs.
Il voit régulièrement Cuno Amiet qui, après un an passé à Pont-Aven, lui fait part de son expérience. En 1900, il expose au Pavillon suisse de l'Exposition universelle de Paris. A partir de 1905, Giacometti travaille à nouveau dans une grande complicité avec Amiet et commence à s'affranchir de l'influence de Segantini. En 1906, a organisé une exposition de son travail au Kunstlerhaus de Zurich. En 1907, il se rend à Paris avec Amiet pour la rétrospective Cézanne au Salon d'Automne. Ils copient toutes les oeuvres de Van Gogh. En 1908, il expose avec les Fauves français à la galerie Richter de Dresde.
En 1909, la galerie Tannhauser présente ses œuvres à Munich. Il rencontre Alexi von Jawlensky, et en 1911 participe à la Sécession de Berlin. En 1912, Giacometti fait une exposition personnelle au Kunsthaus de Zurich et présente deux œuvres au Sonderbund de Cologne. En 1918, après la mort de Hodler, il commence à s'impliquer dans le monde politique suisse en y jouant un rôle important en tant qu'artiste engagé, à la suite en cela de son ami Amiet.

La montagne
Le Pic Corvatsch (3 451 m - 11 322 ft) est une montagne de la chaîne des Alpes de la Bernina, surplombant le lac de Sils et le lac de Silvaplana dans la région de l'Engadine, Canton des Grisons en Suisse. C'est le point culminant du massif séparant la vallée principale de l'Inn du Val Roseg. Outre le Piz Corvatsch, deux autres sommets légèrement inférieurs composent le massif du Corvatsch : le Piz Murtèl (3 433 m (11 263 ft) ; au nord du Piz Corvatsch) et le sommet sans nom où se trouve la station supérieure du téléphérique du Corvatsch (3 303 m (10 837 ft) ; au nord du Piz Murtèl). Politiquement, le sommet du Piz Corvatsch est partagé entre les communes de Sils im Engadin et Samedan, bien que le sommet de 3 303 m se situe entre les communes de Silvaplana et Samedan.
Plusieurs glaciers se trouvent du côté est du massif. Le plus grand, en dessous du Piz Corvatsch, s'appelle Vadret dal Murtèl. Le deuxième plus grand, en dessous du Piz Murtèl et de la gare, s'appelle Vadret dal Corvatsch.
Le téléphérique du Corvatsch démarre au-dessus du village de Surlej, à l'est de Silvaplana et culmine à 3 298 m. De là, le sommet du Piz Corvatsch peut être atteint en traversant le Piz Murtil. En hiver et au printemps, la montagne fait partie d'un domaine skiable parmi les plus hauts de Suisse et des Alpes orientales.

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PIZ CORVATSCH PAINTED BY GIOVANNI SEGANTINI

GIOVANNI SEGANTINI (1858-1899) 

Piz Corvatsch (3,451m - 11, 322 ft)

Switzerland

In Alpine Triptych: Death, 1898-1899, oil on canvas, 190 cm x 320 cm, 

Segantini Museum, St. Moritz.

About the painting 

In 1897, Segantini was commissioned by a group of local hotels to build a huge panorama of the Engadin valley to be shown in a specially built round hall at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris.  For this project he worked almost exclusively outdoors on large canvases covered by substantial wooden shelters. Before it was completed, however, the project had to be scaled down for financial reasons. Segantini redesigned the concept into a large triptych known as Life, Nature and Death (Segantini Museum, St. Moritz), which is now his most famous work. He continued to work on it until his death. The painting above "Death", is the last part of  the triptych, depicting some mountain of the Engadin valley, propably Piz Corvatsch, even though the name of  the mountains  painted are never precisely given in Segantini works. 

The painter

Giovanni Segantini was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by major museums. In later life, he combined a Divisionist painting style with Symbolist images of nature. He was active in Switzerland during the last period of his life.
More than anything else, Segantini's work represents the quintessential transition from traditional 19th century art to the changing styles and interests of the 20th century. He began with simple scenes of common people living of the land— peasants, farmers, shepherds—and moved toward a thematic symbolist style that continued to embody the landscapes around him while intertwining pantheistic images representing "a primeval Arcadia".  Over the course of his life, he moved from both the physical and emotional internal, such as his scene of motherhood in a stable, to the grand external views of the mountain scenery where he chose to live.
Nature and the connections of people to nature are the core themes of his art. After he moved to the mountains he wrote "I am now working passionately in order to wrest the secret of Nature's spirit from her. Nature utters the eternal word to the artist: love, love; and the earth sings life in spring, and the soul of things reawakens."
His 1896 painting Love at the Springs of Life (Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Milan) reflects Segantini's philosophical approach to his art. Set in the high mountain landscape near his home, it pictures an angel with large wings spread over a small waterfall flowing from some rocks. In the distance two lovers, clothed in white flowing robes, walk along a path coming toward the spring. Around them are flowers that would have been seen by viewers at the time as symbols of love and life.
Art historian Robert Rosenblum described Segantini as transforming "the earthbound into the spiritual", and the artist himself referred to his work as "naturalist Symbolism". 

 He said "I've got God inside me. I don't need to go to church."

The mountain
Piz Corvatsch (3,451m-11, 322 ft) is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, overlooking Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana in the Engadin region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is the highest point on the range separating the main Inn valley from the Val Roseg. Aside from Piz Corvatsch, two other slightly lower summits make up the Corvatsch massif: Piz Murtèl (3,433 m (11,263 ft); north of Piz Corvatsch) and the unnamed summit where lies the Corvatsch upper cable car station (3,303 m (10,837 ft); north of Piz Murtèl). Politically, the summit of Piz Corvatsch is shared between the municipalities of Sils im Engadin and Samedan, although the 3,303 m high summit lies between the municipalities of Silvaplana and Samedan. The tripoint between the aforementioned municipalities is the summit of Piz Murtèl.
Several glaciers lie on the east side on the massif. The largest, below Piz Corvatsch, is named Vadret dal Murtèl. The second largest, below Piz Murtèl and the station, is named Vadret dal Corvatsch. The Corvatsch cable car starts above the village of Surlej, east of Silvaplana and culminates at 3,298 m. From there, the summit of Piz Corvatsch can be reached by traversing Piz Murtèl. In winter and spring, the mountain is part of a ski area, which is amongst the highest in Switzerland and the Eastern Alps.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

PIZ CORVATSCH BY FERDINAND HODLER

FERDINAND HODLER (1853-1918) 

Piz Corvatsch (3,451m - 11, 322 ft)

Switzerland

In Piz Corvatsch, oil on canvas, 1907

The mountain
Piz Corvatsch (3,451m- 11, 322 ft) is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, overlooking Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana in the Engadin region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is the highest point on the range separating the main Inn valley from the Val Roseg. Aside from Piz Corvatsch, two other slightly lower summits make up the Corvatsch massif: Piz Murtèl (3,433 m (11,263 ft); north of Piz Corvatsch) and the unnamed summit where lies the Corvatsch upper cable car station (3,303 m (10,837 ft); north of Piz Murtèl). Politically, the summit of Piz Corvatsch is shared between the municipalities of Sils im Engadin and Samedan, although the 3,303 m high summit lies between the municipalities of Silvaplana and Samedan. The tripoint between the aforementioned municipalities is the summit of Piz Murtèl.
Several glaciers lie on the east side on the massif. The largest, below Piz Corvatsch, is named Vadret dal Murtèl. The second largest, below Piz Murtèl and the station, is named Vadret dal Corvatsch. The Corvatsch cable car starts above the village of Surlej, east of Silvaplana and culminates at 3,298 m. From there, the summit of Piz Corvatsch can be reached by traversing Piz Murtиl. In winter and spring, the mountain is part of a ski area, which is amongst the highest in Switzerland and the Eastern Alps.

The Painter
Ferdinand Hodler was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called Parallelism.
In the last decade of the nineteenth century his work evolved to combine influences from several genres including Symbolism and Art Nouveau. In 1890 he completed Night, a work that marked Hodler's turn toward symbolist imagery. It depicts several recumbent figures, all of them relaxed in sleep except for an agitated man who is menaced by a figure shrouded in black, which Hodler intended as a symbol of death. Hodler developed a style he called "Parallelism" that emphasized the symmetry and rhythm he believed formed the basis of human society. In paintings such as The Chosen One, groupings of figures are symmetrically arranged in poses suggestive of ritual or dance.
Hodler painted number of large-scale historical paintings, often with patriotic themes. In 1897 he accepted a commission to paint a series of large frescoes for the Weapons Room of the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum in Zurich. The compositions he proposed, including The Battle of Marignan which depicted a battle that the Swiss lost, were controversial for their imagery and style, and Hodler was not permitted to execute the frescoes until 1900.
Hodler's work in his final phase took on an expressionist aspect with strongly coloured and geometrical figures. Landscapes were pared down to essentials, sometimes consisting of a jagged wedge of land between water and sky.

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2017 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

PIZ CORVATSCH PAINTED BY GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI

GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI (1868-1933)

Piz Corvatsch (3,451m - 11, 322 ft) 

Switzerland

In Piz Corvatsch, watercolor

The mountain

Piz Corvatsch  (3,451m- 11, 322 ft) is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, overlooking Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana in the Engadin region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is the highest point on the range separating the main Inn valley from the Val Roseg. Aside from Piz Corvatsch, two other slightly lower summits make up the Corvatsch massif: Piz Murtèl (3,433 m (11,263 ft); north of Piz Corvatsch) and the unnamed summit where lies the Corvatsch upper cable car station (3,303 m (10,837 ft); north of Piz Murtèl). Politically, the summit of Piz Corvatsch is shared between the municipalities of Sils im Engadin and Samedan, although the 3,303 m high summit lies between the municipalities of Silvaplana and Samedan. The tripoint between the aforementioned municipalities is the summit of Piz Murtèl.

Several glaciers lie on the east side on the massif. The largest, below Piz Corvatsch, is named Vadret dal Murtèl. The second largest, below Piz Murtèl and the station, is named Vadret dal Corvatsch.

The Corvatsch cable car starts above the village of Surlej, east of Silvaplana and culminates at 3,298 m. From there, the summit of Piz Corvatsch can be reached by traversing Piz Murtиl. In winter and spring, the mountain is part of a ski area, which is amongst the highest in Switzerland and the Eastern Alps.

The painter 

Giovanni Giacometti was a Swiss painter, the father of  the famous painter and sculptor Alberto  Giacommetti, and of Diego Giacometti, the furniture designer as well as the father of the architect Bruno Giacometti !

In 1886, he studied painting at the School of Decorative Arts in Munich, where he met Cuno Amiet the following year. Both decide to pursue their studies in Paris, in October stood at the Académie Julian, where Giacometti remains until 1891.

In 1893, shortly after his return to Switzerland, to Bergell, he became friends with Giovanni Segantini, his eldest ten years, which has great influence on his work by opening it to the beauty of the mountain scenery and the rules of divisionism. After his sudden death in 1899, Giacometti met Ferdinand Hodler, who teaches him to create a rigorous and ornamental composition by appropriate use of shapes and colors.

He sees regularly Cuno Amiet, who after a year spent in Pont-Aven,  shared his experience with him. In 1900 he exhibited in the Swiss Pavillon of the Universal Exhibition in Paris. From 1905, Giacometti works again in a great complicity with Amiet and begins to break free from the influence of Segantini. In 1906, held an exhibition of his work at Kunstlerhaus Zurich. In 1907 he went to Paris with Amiet to the Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne. They copy all the works of Van Gogh. In 1908, he exhibited with the French Fauves at the Richter Gallery in Dresden.

In 1909, the Tannhauser Gallery presents his works in Munich. He meets Alexi von Jawlensky, and in 1911 participates in the Berlin Secession. In 1912, Giacometti has a solo show at the Kunsthaus Zurich presents two works in the Sonderbund of Cologne. In 1918 after Hodler' s death, he began to be involved into the Swiss political world  paying an important part as a committed artist, following intthat way friend Amiet.

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2017 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau