Collection: Art prints by Giovanni Segantini

Giovanni Segantini was an Italian Symbolist painter who came from a humble background and was largely self-taught. After a difficult childhood characterized by poverty and early losses, he first began an apprenticeship as a shoemaker before his talent for drawing became apparent. From 1875, Segantini attended the Accademia di Brera in Milan, where he intensively studied realistic painting and achieved his first successes. In order to earn a living, he mainly produced genre paintings with rural motifs depicting the simple life of farmers.

In the 1880s, Segantini moved to the Alpine regions of Lombardy and later to the Engadine, where the high Alpine landscape became his central artistic theme. The mountains, the light of the high altitude and the life of the shepherds and farmers inspired him to create monumental landscape paintings in which the depiction of nature and symbolic meaning are closely linked. During this period, Segantini developed a characteristic style of painting based on divisionism: by juxtaposing pure color tones, he achieved a special luminosity and depth.

In addition to landscapes, Segantini devoted himself to existential themes such as life, death, motherhood and closeness to nature, which he often depicted allegorically. His main work, the unfinished "Alpine Triptych", is considered the highlight of his oeuvre and combines the experience of nature with philosophical symbolism. Despite his early death in 1899, Segantini achieved international recognition and is today regarded as one of the most important representatives of Symbolism in European painting. His works are highly sought-after on the art market and regularly fetch high prices.