Name:
Armand Guillaumin
Born:
16 February 1841; Paris, France
Died:
26 June 1927; Orly, Val-de-Marne, France
Nationality:
French
Art
Movement: Impressionism
Genre: Landscape
Field:
Painting
Armand Guillaumin is a French
Impressionist painter and lithographer who was born on February 16, 1841 and
died on June 26, 1927.
Born in Paris, Guillaumin worked at
his uncle’s lingerie shop and took drawing lessons in the evening. He also
worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse
in 1861.
There, he met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, with whom he
maintained lifelong friendships. Although he never achieved the status of
Cézanne and Pissarro, Guillaumin had a significant influence on their works.
Cézanne even tried his first etching based on Guillaumin paintings of barges on
the River Seine.
Guillaumin exhibited his work at
the Salon des Refusés in 1863 and participated in six of the eight
Impressionist exhibitions held by Impressionist painters. In 1886, he became a
friend of Vincent van Gogh whose brother, Theo sold some of his works. In 1891,
Guillaumin, who won the lottery of 100,000 francs, was finally able to quit his
government job and concentrate on painting full-time.
Known for their intense colors,
Guillaumin's works are exhibited in major museums around the world. He is most
famous for his landscapes of Paris, the Creuse département, and the area around
Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel near the Mediterranean coast in the Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur region.
Guillaumin was called the leader of the “École de Crozant”, a
group of diverse painters who came to paint the landscape in the region of the
Creuse around the village of Crozant. One of these paintings, "Landscape
in Crozant," is currently owned by the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1927,
he died in Orly, Val-de-Marne south of Paris.
FAMOUS WORKS
Echo rock
Les rapides a Genetin
Neige
RELATED ARTISTS
1. Paul Cézanne
2. Camille Pissarro
3. Vincent van Gogh
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