Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico (10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian painter and writer. In the years before World War I, he founded the Scuola metafisica art movement. The name means "Metaphysical school". The Scuola metafisica was a big influence on the surrealist painters. After 1919, he became interested in more traditional ways of painting. He began to paint in a neoclassical style.Encyclopaedia Britannica (1998). "Giorgio de Chirico". Retrieved 26 March 2018.

De Chirico was born in Volos, Greece. His parents were Italian. He studied art first in Athens and then in Florence. In 1906 he went to Munich in Germany where he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

Related pages
 Bestetti Edizioni
 List of Italian painters

 References 

Other websites

De Chirico Foundation
Giorgio de Chirico at the Museum of Modern Art

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