Alberto Giacometti

In 1962, Ernst Scheidegger published the first book using his own name as an imprint: the German edition of Jean Genet s essay on Alberto Giacometti (still available in the Scheidegger & Spiess list today). Giacometti, a close personal friend of Ernst Scheidegger since the 1940s, has been subject of many books published by Verlag Ernst Scheidegger and later Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess over the past fifty years. The most successful one has been Traces of a Friendship - Alberto Giacometti, first published in German in 1990 and in English in 2001. To mark the 50th anniversary of Verlag Ernst Scheidegger / Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess this very intimate view of Alberto Giacometti and his work has been completely revised and expanded. The new edition Alberto Giacometti: Traces of a Friendship also features for the first time around forty previously unpublished colour images, which have recently been discovered in Ernst Scheidegger s archive. Besides of the more accurate dating of some photographs the essays and captions have been revised and amended as well. Text in English and German.