Claude Monet
14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926
French painter and founder of Impressionism, whose studies of light and atmosphere reshaped modern art. His late Water Lilies series became a landmark of twentieth-century painting.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Claude Monet.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) Overlapped 86 years →
- Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) Overlapped 85 years →
- Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923) Overlapped 83 years →
- Ilya Repin (1844–1930) Overlapped 82 years →
- Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) Overlapped 82 years →
- Karl Benz (1844–1929) Overlapped 82 years →
Life events
Birth
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Exhibited Impression, Sunrise at the first Impressionist exhibition
15 April 1874
The painting's title inspired the name of the Impressionist movement.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Moved to Giverny
April 1883
Relocation
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Began the large-scale Water Lilies series
c. 1897
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Death
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