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3 landscape paintings on white cover, Giovanni Segantini La Vita La Natura La Morte in black, green brown and blue font to left side.

Giovanni Segantini. La Vita – La Natura – La Morte

Landmarks of Swiss Art

By (author) Juerg Albrecht

£35.00

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  • Giovanni Segantini’s monumental Alpine triptych La Vita—La Natura—La Morte is a key work of symbolist art
  • The book offers insights into the moving genesis of Giovanni Segantini’s landmark painting
  • Based on extensive research and the evaluation of previously untapped sources
Full Description

Giovanni Segantini’s (1858–99) three paintings La Vita—La Natura—La Morte (Becoming—Being—Passing) of 1898/99 do not reveal at first glance anything about their equally complex and interesting background. Originally planned for the 1900 Paris Exposition of 1900 as a gigantic, multimedia “Alpine symphony” panorama 722 ft long and 66 ft high, Segantini was forced to reduce his work to three purely pictorial main paintings, owing to a lack of financial means. When he died in 1899, whilst still working on it, he left behind an incomplete triptych that was intended to embody “the spirit of nature, of life, and of death.”

In this book, Swiss art historian and Segantini-expert Juerg Albrecht traces this monumental landmark piece in the artist’s oeuvre as one of the last programmatic works of fin de siècle art. Apart from its genesis, the book explains, as well the cycle of life and death that the three paintings visualise, whose origins Segantini sought both privately and creatively in the mountains of the upper Engadine valley during his lifetime.

Text in English and German.

About the Author

Juerg Albrecht, born 1952, is a scholar of art history. He served as head of art history at the Swiss Institute for Art Research SIK-ISEA 1991–2015.

Specifications
Publisher
Scheidegger & Spiess
ISBN
9783039420728
Published
16th Jun 2022
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, United States, Canada, and Japan
Size
250 mm x 215 mm
Pages
160 Pages
Illustrations
50 color
Name of series
Landmarks of Swiss Art
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