Private Collection 17" X 14" Attrib. with certificate Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, attributed to Georgio de Chirico he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. Beginning in 1900, de Chirico studied drawing and painting at Athens Polytechnic mainly under the guidance of the Greek painters Georgios Roilos and Georgios Jakobides. After Evaristo de Chirico's death in 1905, the family relocated in 1906 to Germany, after first visiting Florence. De Chirico entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied under Gabriel von Hackl and Carl von Marr and read the writings of the philosophers Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer and Otto Weininger. There, he also studied the works of Arnold Boklin and Max Klinger. The style of his earliest paintings, such as The Dying Centaur (1909), shows the influence of Boklin.

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