poor family; orphaned by 1866
Accademia di Belle Arti de Brera (Milan)
1880 – Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, an art collector, becomes Segantini’s sponsor
1882 – begins exhibiting regularly in The Netherlands
1883 – gold medal at the International Exhibition in Amsterdam for Mary Crossing the Lake (private collection)
1886 – contractual agreement with Vittore and Alberto Grubicy; settles in Savognin
1888 – Italian government purchases At the Fence (Galleria Nazionale D'Arte Moderna, Rome)
1889 – publication of Luigi Illica’s poem, “Nirvana,” which exerts profound influence on Segantini’s work
1894 – meets Divisionist painter Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo at the second Brera triennale in Milan
1896 – one-man show at Munich Secession
Punishment of Lust, 1891 (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
Reassurance of Faith, 1896 (Kunsthalle, Hamburg)
Vittore and Alberto Grubicy
Stutzer, Beat. Giovanni Segantini. Exhibition catalogue. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 1999