Diego Giacometti
HIS LIFE AND WORK
by James Lord
Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901, in an austere Alpine valley of southeastern Switzerland. Less well-known, however, though of supreme creative importance, is the fact that, in 1902, exactly thirteen months later, his brother Diego was born in the same place. From earliest childhood, the two brothers, so close in age, were inseparable in a family within which no malaise seems ever to have troubled the devotion and support that all received from one another, and in which the central element in their early years was the creative vocation of the father, Giovanni, a distinguished post-Impressionist painter highly esteemed in Switzerland.
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