03 Studio Jacoby
Moving Mountains Painting, Sculpting and Building
Studio Master: Prof. Alfred Jacoby
The Engadin Valley stretches over a lengh of 70 km from Scuol to Maloja. With its
rugged topography and its settlements of old agrarian villages it has developed a
Characteristic Architecture over centuries.
Also, the Engadin has brought out a series of important painters and sculptors. Born
in the second half of the 19th Giacomettis lived, worked and discussed together in
the upper Engadin Valley around Maloja Celerina, Sils Maria and Bever.
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They were all striving for new forms of expression in painting and sculpting, to represent the beauty and scenic drama of their life within this beautiful environment.
Working between 1850 and 2012, this group of artist mostly dealt with painting the
landscapes and scenery of the Engadin, bringing the phantastic world of the Swiss
Alps into Art.
Although their work is well known - in the case of Alberto Giacometti world famousthe Engadin Valley has no local Museum to show their work.- Every single painter
has his own specialised artistic abode.
Keeping with this , the Studio Moving Mountains will prepare and design a Museum for the painters and sculptors of the Pedretti Family, who have their home, and
adjacent to it, a small Gallery in Celerina. The Studio is going to visit the Engadin in
Excursion Week, which is compulsory for participants of the studio.
1st year studios | summer semester 2015