When was Paul Cézanne born and where?
Paul Cézanne was born on the 19th of January 1839 at 28 rue de l'Opéra in Aix-en-Provence, France. His father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne, was the co-founder of the banking firm Banque Cézanne et Cabassol.
Questions about Paul Cézanne
Short answers, pulled from the story.
What did Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso say about Paul Cézanne?
Both Matisse and Picasso remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all." Picasso described him as "the only master for me" and a father figure who offered protection. As late as 1949, the eighty-year-old Matisse said he owed the most to the art of Cézanne.
When was Paul Cézanne's first solo exhibition held?
Cézanne's first solo exhibition was opened by the art dealer Ambroise Vollard in November 1895 at his Paris gallery. Vollard showed a selection of around 50 works from approximately 150 that Cézanne had sent him.
What was Cézanne's relationship with Émile Zola?
Cézanne and Zola were childhood friends who met at the Collège Bourbon in Aix in 1852 and were part of a trio called "Les Trois Inséparables." Their friendship grew distant after Zola published L'Oeuvre in March 1886, a novel featuring a painter who fails and dies by suicide, in whom Cézanne recognised himself. Letters discovered later show some contact continued into 1887, and Cézanne mourned Zola when he died in 1903.
How did Camille Pissarro influence Paul Cézanne's painting style?
Pissarro persuaded Cézanne to abandon his early dark palette and work with only the three primary colours and their immediate deviations, defining shapes through colour tonal gradation rather than linear contour. Their landscape painting excursions together in Louveciennes and Pontoise evolved from a master-disciple relationship into a collaboration between equals. Cézanne later called him "God the Father" and said "We all stem from Pissarro."
How did Paul Cézanne die?
Cézanne died on the 22nd of October 1906 of pneumonia in Aix-en-Provence, at the age of 67. He had been caught in a storm on the 15th of October while painting outdoors, collapsed on the way home, and developed severe pneumonia from hypothermia. He was working on his last painting, Portrait of the Gardener Vallier, the day before he was confined to bed for the last time.