Alberto Giacometti

Born into an artistic family in Borgonovo, Switzerland, in 1901, Alberto Giacometti was encouraged from an early age by his post-Impressionist painter father, Giovanni Giacometti. He moved to Paris in 1922 to study sculpture, where he quickly immersed himself in the avant-garde. Experimenting with Cubism and Surrealism, he became a leading Surrealist sculptor, associating with figures like Miró, Max Ernst, and Picasso. Works such as "Couple" (1926) and "Spoon Woman" (1926–27…