Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in Switzerland
Giacometti - of Egypt

Drawings by Alberto Giacometti in Ludwig Curtius’s «Ägypten und Vorderasien», Berlin 1923

Giacometti - of Egypt SWITZERLAND ZURICH  •  Kunsthaus  •  Ongoing   Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966), the Swiss sculptor, was almost fifty when he created the form of the human figure by which he is best known - tall and inconceivably thin male and female forms. Masterpieces from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin – including busts of Akhenaton and Nefertiti, the block statue of Senemut, and the so-called Berlin Green Head – are brought into dialogue with sculptural works of Alberto Giacometti, who began copying and assimilating ancient Egyptian art in his youth and was thus profoundly influenced by these classical forms : by their concentration on the human being in a selection of elementary types, their relation of figure to space, and their basic artistic intention, which is to secure for the individual an eternal present. Kunsthaus Zurich Web Site Contact: Kunsthaus Heimplatz 1 8001 Zürich, Switzerland Tel: (41) 1 253 84 84 email this item to a friend