Barbizon

Barbizon is a municipality with 1357 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the French department of Seine -et -Marne Île -de -France region. She is a member of the Communauté de communes du Pays de Bière. The name refers to a colony of artists who lived in the first half of the 19th century in this county and worked.

The artist colony of Barbizon

The Barbizon School, an artists' colony at the forest of Fontainebleau, was built around 1830. Failure saying that the term " school of painters from the Barbizon " is the sense that a school in terms of teacher-student relationship never existed. A closed group, it was also not, but rather a loose friendship and colleagues, some of whom settled in Barbizon, others in Pension Auberge Ganne be quartered temporarily. Gave it its name, the English writer and art dealer David C. Thomson with the book " The Barbizon School of Painters ", which was published in a limited edition in New York in 1890.

With the invention of the railroad, the painter could simply take their easels from Paris to Barbizon. Since the tube paints were already invented, they could now paint directly in the great outdoors. Guide was a simple internalized landscape painting ( Paysage intimate ), the prepared Impressionism. The Barbizonniers looked to nature for new forms of expression and took great influence on the development of European landscape painting of the 19th century. They also influenced the Worpswede and Ahrenshooper painters, the artists' colony Dachau or the Skagen painters. Max Liebermann admired the Barbizonniers; he kept during the summer of 1874 in Barbizon and attended the esteemed him Jean -François Millet shortly before his death.

Barbizon in the 19th century and today

In the 19th century Barbizon only consisted of the main street, Rue de Barbizon, today Grande Rue, lined up with the participation of a total of about 40 houses. The train was on the main road. The only hostel, Auberge Ganne, lay in the middle of the village. It is largely in its original condition and now houses the Musée Ganne ( Musée municipal de l' Ecole de Barbizon - Auberge Ganne ). They reached Barbizon out after 90 minutes train ride from Paris. Most painters rented for little at the Auberge Ganne. Some then bought houses in Barbizon.

Jean -François Millet's home and studio is located just 100 meters from the Auberge and now houses a private museum. It is located in the little cemetery of Barbizon buried. The Auberge shows doors, walls and original furniture, which had been painted by the painters in bad weather plentiful. Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Troyon, Chaigneau, Brendel and others are represented with original oil paintings.

Main representative of the school of Barbizon

  • Jean -Baptiste- Camille Corot (1796-1875)
  • Narcisso Virgilio Diaz de la Peña (1807-1876)
  • Karl Bodmer (1809-1893)
  • Constant Troyon (1810-1865)
  • Jules Dupré (1811-1889)
  • Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867)
  • Charles Emile Jacque (1813-1894)
  • Jean -François Millet (1814-1875)
  • Gabriel Gervais Chardin (1814-1907)
  • Charles -François Daubigny (1817-1878)
  • Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1831-1900)

Pictures of Barbizon

Boulders in the forest behind the village

Village chapel

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