Paul Cézanne
1839–1906 · painter · France
Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1839
- 18489 years old
- 185213 years old
- 185213 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at schoolclassmate
- 187031 years old
- 187435 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibitionexhibitor
- 187536 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188647 years oldZola publishes L'Œuvreperceived model for Claude Lantier
- 189859 years oldZola publishes “J'accuse…!”
- 189859 years oldPolonium and radium
- 190667 years oldDies
Connected to
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Émile Zola · school friends
1852 Friends from their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. They drifted apart after Zola's novel L'Œuvre (1886), whose failed painter Cézanne saw himself in.
Source: wikipedia:Paul_Cézanne - CM
Claude Monet · exhibitor
1874 The first Impressionist exhibition. Monet, Cézanne and Morisot show work at the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris.
Source: wikipedia:Impressionism - BM
Berthe Morisot · exhibitor
1874 The first Impressionist exhibition. Monet, Cézanne and Morisot show work at the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris.
Source: wikipedia:Impressionism
