Giovanni Segantini is regarded as an important artist of Realistic Symbolism and a great reviver of Alpine painting at the end of the 19th century. In 1894, the stateless artist moved from Savognin to Maloja in the Engadin. Segantini died unexpectedly on the Schafberg, high above Pontresina, while working on the middle section of his Alpine Triptych, Life – Nature – Death. In 1908, the Segantini Museum was built in St. Moritz in honour of the artist; today it houses the most comprehensive collection of works by Segantini in the world.
The grand Italian painter, Giovanni Segantini, spent the last years of his life in Engadine. And the Alps were constantly a popular theme in his works; for which he was honoured, in 1908, with the founding of the Segantini Museum in St. Moritz. Here, many of his works can be admired.