Achille Empéraire
Achille Emperaire ( born September 16, 1829 in Aix -en- Provence, † January 8, 1898 same place ) was a French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne.
Life
Achille Emperaire came 1829 in Aix -en- Provence with a physical disability to the world and remained dwarfish small.
Emperaire took in Aix drawing lessons from 1844 to 1856, and then went on to further studies at the school of painting of Thomas Couture in Paris, while Cézanne finished his schooling in 1858. Until 1861 They met at the Académie Suisse in Paris. To reach the conclusion, Emperaire was any help right, he would have lived on the street. He even wrote in a letter: "If I can occasionally spend 80 centimes for a meal, I like an orgy appears. [ ... ] Yes, Paris is a large grave. [ ... ] Few cope, most perish. "
On the eve of his first exhibition in Paris, he added the canvas of a painting, add a non-tested varnish. The next day the painting was destroyed. He was so horrified that he never used varnish again, a statement that many of his paintings no longer exist. It is only the intervention of the son of Joseph Ravaisou, thanks to a French painter, that some paintings have survived.
By happy coincidence Emperaire was commissioned to paint a painting for the Louvre, and he got 1000 francs for it, which was a considerable sum for that time. This income allowed him to offset some debt and enabled him in October 1873 trip to Aix. This year, he met the writer Joachim Gasquet in Aix, which should be his best friend to the end of life.
Emperaire returned in 1881 and the following year returned to Paris and was honored with membership in the Société libre des Artistes français. Since the year 1873, he never left Aix. He often visited the area around tholonet to paint there. On January 8, 1898, he died in Aix -en- Provence.
Work (selection)
Despite his ten-year friendship with Cézanne, he did not accept his style of painting. His models were Titian and Édouard Manet. Some of his works are on display at the Musée Granet in Aix -en- Provence.
Painting
- Nu couché
- Bather de Saul ( on the back of a self-portrait )
- Portrait de femme en buste ( on the back of a kneeling nude )
- Paysage de la campagne d' Aix
- Nature morte ou pichet ( on the back of two Amazons in the forest)
- Nature morte aux ainsi que plusieurs pêches dessins
- Amazon
- La République s'offrant aux hommages de ses adorateurs ou Suzanne au bain (1887 )
- Bethsabée aux bains (1895 )
- Le Duel ( 1895)