Melancholia by Chirico in the Esterick Collection - Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece who founded the scuola metafisica art movement. After studying art in Athens and Florence, de Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he read the writings of the philosophers Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer and studied the works of Arnold B鐼klin and Max Klinger. After 1910 he lived in Italy.- 固opFoto