NameGiorgio de ChiricoLife Dates1888-1978CountryItalyMovementSurrealism Giorgio de Chirico BiographyGiorgio de Chirico was born in Greece into the family of an Italian railroad engineer and later studied in Athens, Florence and Munich, where he was much influenced by Nietzsche's philosophy and Arnold Böcklin's Symbolist art. In 1910, de Chirico moved to Paris where he made contact with Picasso and