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The Italian painter and graphic artist Giorgio de
Chirico was born in Volvos, Greece, on July 7, 1888 to a Genovese mother and a
Sicilian father.
Giorgio de Chirico went to Italy in 1909, living in Milan, he visited Turin, Florence and other cities. He was in Paris from 1911 to 1915, participating in exhibitions.. The choice of topics and the atmosphere of his paintings show the strong influence of Friedrich Nietzsche's works. Reality and dream worlds mingle, he painted fantastic ideal architecture and city and landscapes views, strictly following the rules of perspectives, in them he placed single statues and the "Manichini" - faceless manikins, that seem to be lost in the surroundings. The artist focussed more and more on the artistic quality of his paintings.
De Chirico met and married his first wife, the Russian Ballerina Raissa Gurievich in 1925, and together they moved to Paris. His relationship with the Surrealists grew increasingly contentious, as they publicly disparaged his new work; by 1926 he had come to regard them as "cretinous and hostile".They soon parted ways in acrimony. In 1928 he held his first exhibition in New York City and shortly afterwards, London. He wrote essays on art and other subjects, and in 1929 published a novel entitled Hebdomeros, the Metaphysician.
In 1930, De Chirico met his second wife, Isabella Pakszwer Far, a Russian, with whom he would remain for the rest of his life. Together they moved to Italy in 1932, finally settling in Rome in 1944. In 1948 he bought a house near the Spanish Steps which is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Giorgio de Chirico died in Rome on November 11, 1978 and was laid to rest in the Church of St. Francis at Ripa, in Rome.
He attended the drawing class of the Polytechnic School
in Athens, later he and his brother - who became a famous composer, painter and
writer under the pseudonym Alberto Savinio - went to Munich, where he studied
at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1909.
Giorgio de Chirico went to Italy in 1909, living in Milan, he visited Turin, Florence and other cities. He was in Paris from 1911 to 1915, participating in exhibitions.. The choice of topics and the atmosphere of his paintings show the strong influence of Friedrich Nietzsche's works. Reality and dream worlds mingle, he painted fantastic ideal architecture and city and landscapes views, strictly following the rules of perspectives, in them he placed single statues and the "Manichini" - faceless manikins, that seem to be lost in the surroundings. The artist focussed more and more on the artistic quality of his paintings.
At the outbreak of the First World War, he returned to
Italy. Upon his arrival in May 1915, he enlisted in the Italian army, but he
was considered unfit for work and assigned to the hospital at Ferrara. He
continued to paint, and in 1918, he transferred to Rome. From 1918 his work was
exhibited extensively in Europe.
He went to Paris again in 1925. He is a friend of the
surrealist painters Max Ernst, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy and Salvador Dalí.
The surrealists acknowledge his painting just as much as the painters of New Objectivity
and Magic Realism.
De Chirico met and married his first wife, the Russian Ballerina Raissa Gurievich in 1925, and together they moved to Paris. His relationship with the Surrealists grew increasingly contentious, as they publicly disparaged his new work; by 1926 he had come to regard them as "cretinous and hostile".They soon parted ways in acrimony. In 1928 he held his first exhibition in New York City and shortly afterwards, London. He wrote essays on art and other subjects, and in 1929 published a novel entitled Hebdomeros, the Metaphysician.
In 1930, De Chirico met his second wife, Isabella Pakszwer Far, a Russian, with whom he would remain for the rest of his life. Together they moved to Italy in 1932, finally settling in Rome in 1944. In 1948 he bought a house near the Spanish Steps which is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Giorgio de Chirico died in Rome on November 11, 1978 and was laid to rest in the Church of St. Francis at Ripa, in Rome.
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