Giovanni Segantini

In Maloja, the family moved into the "Chalet Kuoni", a spacious chalet in the middle of the village, built by the Gotthard Railway Company engineer Alexander Kuoni from Chur. From 1896, Segantini worked in Maloja in the summer and in Soglio in Bergell in the winter. Here, he painted high mountain landscapes using a painting technique related to neo-impressionism. The most famous is the magnificent Alpine triptych Becoming - Being - Passing Away (La vita - La natura - La morte), consisting of the parts: Life, Nature and Death. It arose from Segantini's idea to build a pavilion for the 1900 Paris World Exhibition and to display a panorama of the Engadine mountains in it. The project failed for financial reasons and the idea of the panorama gave rise to today's triptych. “Life” was created between 1896 and 1899 near Soglio, “Nature” between 1897 and 1899 on the Schafberg above Pontresina and “Death” between 1896 and 1899 at the Maloja Pass in the direction of Bergell. The triptych hangs in the Segantini Museum in St. Moritz.

Studio and Sentiero Segantini

The round building behind the Segantini House, on the way to the Belvedere observation tower, is a 1:10 scale model of the planned pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition. The studio can be visited every weekend from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Private tours of the studio and the family residence are also possible on request. You can find out more about Segantini on the Sentiero Segantini. A walk lasting around two hours takes you to 12 stations that are connected to the painter. Among other things, the Chiesa Bianca, where Segantini was laid out after his death, and the family grave in the cemetery where the artist is buried. He died on the Schafberg in 1899. Information boards provide information about the artist's life and work.