Armand Guillaumin
Armand Guillaumin (born February 16, 1841 in Paris , † June 26, 1927 in Orly , Val-de-Marne south of Paris) was a French painter and printmaker . He is primarily to be assigned to the Impressionists . In his late work, influences of Fauvism can be felt.
Life
Armand Guillaumin was born as Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, the son of a worker who had recently moved from Moulins to the capital. In 1857, at the age of 15, he began to work in an uncle's laundry shop and from 1860 worked for the French railway company “Chemin de fer Paris-Orléans”, and from 1868 as a night worker for the road construction authority “Ponts et Chaussées”. Since he had to earn a living, he could only paint in his limited free time and was mainly self-taught, but from 1861 he attended the Académie Suisse painting academy . There he met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro , with whom he remained lifelong friends. They were represented together at the first Salon des Refusés in 1863 . His later friends also included Vincent van Gogh , whose brother, the art dealer Theo von Gogh, sold some of Guillaumin's paintings. In 1873 the patron Paul Gachet made a room available to him in his house in Auvers-sur-Oise . A year later he lived in the same house as Cézanne, and in 1875 he rented Daubigny's former studio .
He showed his paintings in the exhibitions of the Impressionist group (1874, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1886) and in the Salon des Indépendants of 1886, founded by the Société des Artistes Indépendants .
The unexpected receipt of a lottery prize of 100,000 francs (1891) made him financially independent and allowed him to devote himself entirely to art and, from 1892, to stay in Crozant in the Creuse department (region of Limousin ), the adopted home of numerous artists who used the motif of is well over a hundred of his paintings. He toured southern France, Auvergne and Holland (1903/04).
Armand Guillaumin died in 1927 at the age of 86 as the last surviving representative of the Impressionist group.
In 1886 he had married his cousin, the teacher Marie-Joséphine Charreton.
Honors
The municipality of Crozant honored the artist with a bronze bust placed next to the church.
plant
Guillaumin's works can be found in Paris in the Musée d'Orsay and many other museums, including those of Agen , Bayonne , Guéret , Rouen and Saint-Quentin . They are characterized by the Impressionists' fast, spontaneous painting style and are known for their intense, bright colors. Guillaumin mainly created landscape paintings in which delicate mauve, violet, red and orange tones predominate. The preferred motifs were the surroundings of Paris, the landscapes of the Limousin and Provence, and the Mediterranean coast . He also left behind still lifes and, above all, portraits executed in pastel . In his later work he approached Fauvism.
Émile Zola , along with Monet, Renoir and Pissarro, counted him among the “ true revolutionaries of form ”.
influence
Although Guillaumin's painter friends Pissarro and Cézanne are classified as more important in terms of art history, he had a great influence on the work of these two painters. Cézanne's first graphics, for example, are based on a painting by Guillaumin depicting boats on the Seine .
Web links
- Works by Armand Guillaumin at Zeno.org .
- A biography of Armand Guillaumin
Individual evidence
- ^ Émile Zola: Le Naturalisme au Salon , 1880
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillaumin, Armand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1927 |
| Place of death | Orly , Val-de-Marne department , France |