Pont-Aven

Pont -Aven is a municipality in western France in the department of Finistère in the Brittany region.

Pont -Aven is located in Cornwall at the beginning of the estuary of the river Aven into the Atlantic. The municipality has 2840 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) on an area of ​​28.63 km ².

Starting in 1886, a group of artists worked to Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard here and at Pouldu at the Laïta. This so-called School of Pont -Aven developed Impressionism in the direction synthetism. Here Paul Sérusier painted around 1888 under the influence of Gauguin his Landscape with forest of love in Pont -Aven, which is considered as a defining image of this style.

Idyll on the River: artist village of Pont -Aven

Port of Pont -Aven

Paul Sérusier - Landscape with forest of love in Pont -Aven

Attractions are the dolmen of Nixon and the Musée des Beaux -Arts.

Since 1972 is twinned with the North Hessian town Hofgeismar.

Pont -Aven is the setting of the novel Breton conditions - A case for Commissioner Dupin by Jean -Luc Bannalec.