Alberto Savinio was an Italian artist and writer known primarily as the younger brother of the painter Giorgio de Chirico. In both his literature and paintings, Savinio dealt with philosophical and Surrealist themes. Born Andrea de Chirico on August 25, 1891 in Athens, Greece to Italian parents, his father worked as a railway engineer in Greece. Moving with his family between Italy and Germany, Savinio was already a sought-after musician in Munich when he moved to Paris at the age of 20. While in France, he fell into a milieu of poets and artists that included Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Cocteau. In 1914, with his brother already gaining fame for his paintings, to distinguish himself the artist changed his pen name to Alberto...