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May Morning

Augusto Giacometti (1877–1947) · 1910 · Öl auf Leinwand

From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

For further artistic training, Augusto Giacometti went to Paris to Eugène Grasset, one of the masters of Art Nouveau, the French expression of Jugendstil. Already during his training as a drawing teacher in Zurich, his publication "La plante et ses applications ornementales" (Paris, 1896) fascinated him, whose idea of ornamentally transforming forms from nature echoes in "Maimorgen".

Kunstmuseum Basel’s own description
Credit lineMaimorgen. 1910. Augusto Giacometti (1877–1947). Kunstmuseum Basel, Ankauf mit Mitteln des Birmann-Fonds. Public domain.

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