Giorgio de Chirico

Born in Greece to Italian parents, Giorgio de Chirico's early life was shaped by his engineer father's railroad projects and a move to Germany after his father's death. It was in Munich, studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, that he delved into the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer, as well as the works of Symbolist painters Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, influences that would prove foundational. His earliest paintings, like *The Dying Centaur* (19…