impressionism

Post-Impressionism 1875 to 1900 Overview

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This period, the last twenty to twenty five years of the 19th Century, was a time of transition and experimentation in the visual arts. Photography had become well established and with few exceptions artists moved away from competing with what the camera could do well.

Gustav Moreau

born: Paris, France; 6 April 1826
died: Paris, France; 18 April 1898

Salome Presents the Ring

Seventeen more Moreau pictures.

  Odilon Redon

born: Bordeaux, France; 20 April 1840
died: Paris, France; 6 July 1916

Twenty-four more Redon pictures.

Henri Rousseau
"Le Douanier"

born: Laval, France; 24 May 1844
died: Paris, France; 2 September 1910

Nine more Rousseau Pictures.

 Paul Gauguin

born: Paris, France; 7 June 1848
died: Marquesas Islands; 8 May 1903

Pissaro's portrait of Gauguin;
Gauguin's portrait of Pissaro

 
Old Spirit

Four more Gauguin pictures.

  Vincent van Gogh

born: Groot-Sundert, Netherlands; 30 March 1853
died: Auvers-sur-Oise, France; 29 July 1890

Twenty more Van Gogh pictures.

Henri-Edmond Cross (Delacroix)

born: Douai, France; 1856
died: Sabt-Clair, France; 1910

Anders Leonard Zorn

born: Mora, Sweden; 18 February 1860
died: Mora, Sweden; 1920

Painter, print maker, and sculptor. He was internationally famed as one of the best genre and portrait painters in Europe at the end of the 19th century.

More Zorn pictures.

James Sidney Ensor

born: Ostend, Belgium; 13 April 1860
died: Ostend, Belgium; 19 November 1949

Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889
1888
Getty Center
Los Angeles, California, US

Forty-six more Ensor Pictures.

Gustav Klimt

born: Baumgarten, Austria; 14 July 1862
died: Vienna, Austria; 6 February 1918

Thirty-two more Klimt pictures: (part 1) (part 2).

Paul Signac

born: Paris, France; 11 November 1863
died: Paris, France; 15 August 1935

 Edvard Munch

born: Loten, Norway; 12 December 1863
died: near Oslo, Norway; 23 January 1944

Eleven more Munch pictures.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

born: Albi, France; 24 November 1864
died: Gironde, France; 9 September 1901

Eleven more Toulouse-Lautrec pictures.

Jean Delville

born: Belgium; 1867
died: 1953

Five more Delville pictures.

Jean-Édouard Vuillard

born: Cuiseaux, France; 11 November 1868
died: La Baule, France; 21 June 1940

Reader

Outing to Villeneuve-sur-Yonne

 

Other works:

• Femme Lisant, le Sour; 1895, Private Collection.
• Mother and Child, about 1899, Museum and Art Gallery, Glascow, Scotland.
• Artist's Mother and Sister in Studio, about 1900, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Pablo Picasso

born: Malaga, Spain; 25 October 1881
died: Mougins, France; 8 April 1973

Picasso has so much art and worked for so long that he has been divided among three galleries in this museum. The Picasso blue period belongs here in the post impressionists. We will meet him later in the first period of the twentieth century and then again and again in European art of the 20th Century.

Twenty more blue-period Picasso pictures.

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