Atelier Cezanne

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Paul Cézanne's studio house
Atelier Cézanne, interior view

The Atelier de Cézanne (also called Atelier des Lauves ) is a museum in Aix-en-Provence . It is located in the north of the city on Avenue Paul Cézanne, on the upper floor of a small house on the Les Lauves hill . Paul Cézanne made some of his pictures here, including the last works of the Great Bathers . In the museum an attempt was made to recreate the working atmosphere of the artist. You can see his easel , paint pots, work clothes and objects that he used as motifs for his still lifes .

history

Paul Cézanne in the studio, 1904. Photo by Émile Bernard
Badge on the studio

In November 1901, Paul Cézanne bought a small property from Joseph Bouquier on the Les Lauves hill above Aix in order to set up a new studio. At the time, the studio was still outside the city and was surrounded by 7,000 square meters of agricultural land on which olive and fig trees grew. The house could be completed after ten months of construction.

In 1904, the art theorist Émile Bernard briefly moved into the ground floor of the studio.

After Cézanne's death in 1906, the studio was closed for fifteen years. In 1921, Cézanne's son sold it to Marcel Provence , who lived here until his death in 1951. In 1952, James Lord and John Rewald founded the Cézanne Memorial Committee to save the studio from demolition. They bought the studio with US donations and gave it away to the University of Aix-Marseille . The studio museum opened on June 8, 1954 and was acquired by the city of Aix-en-Provence in 1969.

See also

literature

  • Thorsten Droste: Provence: ancient arenas, Romanesque cloisters, cities with history - a journey through France's sunny province. 7th edition. Reiseverlag Dumont, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-3927-9 , pp. 244–245.
  • Ines Mache, Stefan Brandenburg: Provence. 7th revised and completely updated edition. Reise Know-How Verlag Rump, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8317-2022-4 , p. 443.
  • Cony Ziegler: Provence with Camargue. Travel book publisher Iwanowski. 2nd updated edition. Dormagen 2009, ISBN 978-3-933041-54-8 , p. 444.

Web links

Commons : Atelier Cézanne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c In the footsteps of Cézanne. (PDF; 2.0 MB) Aix en Provence Tourist Office, 2010, archived from the original on December 20, 2010 ; Retrieved July 18, 2012 .

Coordinates: 43 ° 32 ′ 20 "  N , 5 ° 26 ′ 46"  E