De Chirico, gli anni Trenta, curated by Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, Galleria dello Scudo and Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, 13 December 1998 - 28 February 1999, catalogue edited by Massimo Di Carlo and Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, essays by Emily Braun, Gaia Bindi, Renato Diez, Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, Fabrizia Lanza, Flavia Matitti, Valerio Rivosecchi, Gerd Roos, Nico Stringa, Alessandro Tinterri; technical sheets by Laura Lorenzoni with the collaboration of Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, biographical and bibliographical research by Laura Lorenzoni with the collaboration of Flavia Matitti and Giovanna Pistone.
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He was born in Volos in 1888 and moved to Germany in 1906, to Munich. Here he began attending the Academy of Fine Arts and studied the work of Böcklin and Klinger; he is interested in philosophy and studies Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Weininger. In 1910 Giorgio de Chirico returned to Italy where he was struck by the deserted squares and monumental architecture immersed in the warm summer light.