Café Guerbois
The Café Guerbois was a well-known artist's bar in the Parisian Quartier des Batignolles .
The café was located at 11 Grande Rue des Batignolles (today: Avenue de Clichy ), not far from the studios of Édouard Manet and Frédéric Bazille . Next door was the Père Lathuile restaurant, which was also popular with artists, and opposite was an art supplies shop. From 1866, in addition to Manet and Bazile, the painter colleagues Henri Fantin-Latour , Claude Monet , Pierre Ernest Prins , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Alfred Sisley , Edgar Degas , Felix Bracquemond , Constantin Guys , Alfred Stevens and Camille Pissarro met in Café Guerbois . Other guests included the sculptor Zacharie Astruc , the photographer Nadar , the musician and poet Ernest Cabaner and the writers and art critics Émile Zola , Édmond Duranty and Théodore Duret . Paul Cézanne also appeared less frequently in the Café Guerbois.
Most of the time, the talks focused on art and the discussions about outdoor painting took up a large space. The annual Paris Salon and the Salon Jury were also the subject of heated discussions. Furthermore, the Paris World Exhibition of 1867 and the Japanese woodcuts exhibited there met with great interest in the Manet circle. Claude Monet later recalled these debates: “Nothing was more interesting than these battles of words. They sharpened our minds, filled us with enthusiasm that lasted for weeks until an idea took on its final form. We left the restaurant with a stronger will, clear thoughts and an elevated mood. "
After a brief and critical exhibition review of two works by Manet in the Paris-Journal, it was in the Café Guerbois that Manet slapped his friend, the art critic Duranty. Then it came on February 23, 1870 in the forest of Saint-Germain to the degenduell. Duranty and Manet remained friends after this duel. Another friendship arose between Claude Monet and Georges Clemenceau at Café Guerbois .
Manet made the drawing in 1869 with a Guerbois café scene. The painting Le Bon Bock followed in 1873, depicting the lithographer Émile Bellot in the Café Guerbois. From around 1876 the artists switched to the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes and the guerbois went out of fashion. The café no longer exists today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claude Monet in Le Temps of November 27, 1900 quoted. after John Rewald: The History of Impressionism . 1986, p. 128.
Web links
- The Cafes of Montmartre (English)