The domed hall with the triptych "Life – Nature – Death" by Giovanni Segantini
The Segantini Museum houses the most extensive and important collection of works by Giovanni Segantini, the great symbolist and innovator of Alpine painting.
The extraordinary esteem in which Segantini and his art were held in Europe manifested itself not least in the construction of a museum dedicated to him. The Segantini Museum was opened in St. Moritz in 1908, nine years after the artist's death. The architecture by Nicolaus Hartmann was based on the monumental pavilion that the artist had designed for his Engadin panorama for the Paris World Exhibition (1900). The circular building with its mighty dome has the appearance of a mausoleum and looks like a walk-in monument.
The collection, which has reached a considerable size with 37 paintings, is complemented by a collection of 26 drawings that is unparalleled in its scope and quality. Its highlight is the monumental Alpine triptych "Life – Nature – Death".
splendur e sumbriva
Giovanni Segantini The whole repertoire of light and shadow
Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) is famous for his portrayal of intense alpine light. Less well known is the fact that his passion for experimenting with light effects and phenomena is already evident in his earliest works and runs as a common thread through his entire oeuvre.
The summer exhibition (May 20 - October 20, 2024) is therefore dedicated to a group of little-known early works created between 1879 and 1881, which depict light-filled views of Milan on the one hand and atmospheric, dark interiors on the other. In addition to this group of works, visitors can also admire landscapes from the late Savognin and Engadin periods, in which Segantini proves himself to be an absolute master in the rendering of light from above, whereby he assigns no less important symbolic significance to shadow and darkness.
The winter exhibition (December 10, 2024 - April 20, 2025) will focus on the depiction of winter light in the snow-covered high mountains: Segantini's mountain landscapes enter into conversation with those of important Lombard colleagues.
On request all year round in German, English, Italian.
Reading of the Segantini novel "Il cercatore di luce"
Bilingual reading (German-Italian) from the successful Segantini novel "Il cercatore di luce" (2021) with the author Carmine Abate and the literary critic Roman Bucheli.
Saturday, July 6, 2024, 5.30 pm
