Paul Cézanne
19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose analytical approach to form and colour laid the foundations for Cubism and much of twentieth-century art. Working largely in his native Provence, he produced landmark series of Mont Sainte-Victoire landscapes, still lifes, bathers, and card players, and was famously called 'the father of us all' by later modern painters.
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Life events
Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence, the son of a hatter who later co-founded a successful bank, giving the painter lifelong financial security.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAt school in Aix, Cézanne formed a close friendship with the future novelist Émile Zola that lasted for three decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAt his father's insistence Cézanne enrolled in law school while also attending drawing classes, before abandoning law for painting.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCézanne left Aix for Paris, where he studied at the Académie Suisse and met Camille Pissarro, who became a decisive mentor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCézanne's companion Hortense Fiquet gave birth to their son Paul, whose existence Cézanne long concealed from his father.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCézanne showed three works, including A Modern Olympia, at the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris, where his paintings drew particular ridicule.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter seventeen years together, Cézanne married Hortense Fiquet in Aix-en-Provence with his parents' belated consent.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe dealer Ambroise Vollard mounted Cézanne's first one-man show in Paris, which established his reputation among younger artists and collectors.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorking from his purpose-built studio at Les Lauves outside Aix, Cézanne produced the late landscapes of Mont Sainte-Victoire and monumental bather compositions that deeply influenced modern art.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCézanne died of pneumonia in Aix-en-Provence at the age of 67, days after being caught in a storm while painting outdoors.
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