short biography

Alberto Giacometti (b.1901, Borgonovo / Stampa, Switzerland, d. 1966, Chur / Switzerland) was a painter and one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century based in Paris and Bergell/Switzerland. He is best known for his sculptures of elongated subjects.

Sculpture, Painting, Drawings, Graphics, Cubism, Abstract Art, Surrealism

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collection/s

Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Benesse Art Site, Naoshima Block Museum of Art, Evanston Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur Ca la Ghironda, Bologna Centre Pompidou Paris Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles Fundacio Sunol, Barcelona Haifa Museum of Art Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Holstebro Kunstmuseum Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Kulturforum Berlin/Gemäldegalerie/Kunstbibliothek/Kupferstichkabinett ' Kunst Museum Winterthur Kunsthalle Mannheim Kunsthaus Zürich Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunstmuseum Olten LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk MAM Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro ° MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles MUMOK Wien MUSMA Matera Menil Collection, Houston Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu . Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis Minneapolis Institute of Arts Morat-Institut, Freiburg Museen Heilbronn - Museum im Deutschhof / Kunsthalle Vogelmann Museo Botero, Bogota Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach Museum Berggruen, Berlin Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Musée Bourdelle, Paris Musée Cantini, Marseille Musée Jenisch, Vevey Nasher Museum of Art, Durham Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Newport Street Gallery, London Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Palm Springs Art Museum Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Zürich Sara Hildén Art Museum Schaulager, Münchenstein Situation Kunst (Für Max IMDAHL), Bochum Skissernas Museum, Lund Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl ° Smithsonian Institution, Washington Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Staatliches Museum Schwerin Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Städel Museum, Frankfurt Tate Collection Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed) Vancouver Art Gallery Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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