Armand Guillaumin

Armand Guillaumin ( born February 16, 1841 in Paris. † June 26, 1927 in Orly, Val -de- Marne just south of Paris ) was a French painter and printmaker. He is primarily attributable to the Impressionists. In his late work influences of Fauvism are verspürbar.

Life

Armand Guillaumin was born as Jean -Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, the son of a recently relocated from Moulins in the capital city worker. In 1857 he started at the age of 15 years to work in the laundry shop of an uncle and was from 1860 worked for the French railway company " Chemin de fer Paris - Orléans ", from 1868 as a night worker for the Main Roads " Ponts et Chaussées ". Since he had to earn his living, he could only paint in what little free time and was formed primarily as a self-taught but attended Académie Suisse in 1861, the Academy of Painting. There he met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro with whom he remained lifelong friends. Together, they were represented in 1863 on the first Salon des Refusés. Among his later friends was also among Vincent van Gogh whose brother, the art dealer Theo van Gogh sold some of Guillaumin paintings. In 1873 the patron Paul Gachet asked him at his home in Auvers- sur -Oise a room available. A year later, he lived in the same house as Cézanne, 1875, he rented the former studio of Daubigny.

He showed his paintings in the exhibitions of the Impressionist group (1874, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1886) and founded the Société des Artistes Independants Salon des Independants of 1886.

The unexpected taking a lottery prize of 100,000 francs (1891 ) made ​​him financially independent and allowed him to devote himself entirely to art and to stay in 1892 in Crozant in Cantal ( Limousin region ), the adopted home of numerous artists, from the motive well over a hundred of his paintings is. He traveled in the south of France, the Auvergne and Holland (1903 /04).

Armand Guillaumin died in 1927 at the age of 86 years as the last surviving representative of the Impressionist group.

In 1886 he had married his cousin, the teacher Marie- Joséphine Charreton.

Honors

The community Crozant honored the artist by an erected beside the church a bronze bust.

Work

Guillaumin's works can be found in Paris at the Musée d' Orsay and many other museums, including those of Agen, Bayonne, Gueret, Rouen and Saint- Quentin. They are characterized by the rapid spontaneous brushwork of the Impressionists and are known for an intense, luminous color. Guillaumin created mainly landscape paintings in which prevail delicate mauve, violet, red and orange tones. The favorite subjects were the surroundings of Paris, the landscapes of the Limousin and Provence and the Mediterranean coast. In addition, he left behind still life and executed primarily in pastel portraits. In his later work he approached to Fauvism.

Émile Zola considered him in common with Monet, Renoir and Pissarro to the "true revolutionaries of the form."

Influence

Although Guillaumin painter friends Pissarro and Cézanne are art historically been classified as a major, he had great influence on the work of these two painters. Cézanne's first graphics for example are working after a painting by Guillaumin, representing Barges on the Seine.