Giovanni Segantini was an Italian painter with a deep love for mountains and snow. His stunning landscapes capture the serene beauty and majesty of the Alps, where he spent much of his life.

In 1894, however, he visited Giovanni Segantini at Maloggia, and the elder artist encouraged him to persevere in his attempts to find an artistic mode of expression, and recommended in particular that ...

Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime ...