Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) ✽ Italian painter

Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) “Higher and higher and more famous.“ I think that’s the best way to describe Giovanni Segantini’s life. Born in 1858 in Arco, South Tyrol, his further stations in life were higher and higher above sea level - from Milan and the Brianza, to Savognin and Maloja in the Engadine, to the Schafberg above Pontresina. The artist is regarded as a great innovator of Alpine painting. Segantini’s parents died young. At the age of seven, he came to Milan in the care of his half-sister Irene, where he later completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker and attended the Brera Academy of Art. With his great love Luigia Bugatti, called Bice, he left the city in 1881 and the two of them settled in the Brianza. The rural landscape helped him to return to the originality and a simple everyday life. Segantini was concerned with the lives of farmers and shepherds, which was also to be expressed in many of his paintings. In 1886 the unmarried couple