Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin, born on 7 June 1848 in Paris and died on 8 May 1903 in Atuona, Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, is a postimpressionist painter. A leader of the École de Pont-Aven and inspiring the nabis, he is considered one of the major French painters of the nineteenth century, and one of the most important precursors of modern art with Munch and Cézanne.
The painter spent his childhood years in Lima, where his father, who died during the trip in 1851 off Punta Arenas and buried in Puerto del Hambre, was fleeing the political regime of Napoleon III, the author of the coup d With the support of the State in the same year.
After returning to France at the age of 7, Paul studied, first at the Petit Séminaire de La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin, directed by Bishop Félix Dupanloup, then at Orléans, notably at the Pothier High School.
In 1882, he abandoned his job as a stockbroker to devote himself to his new passion, painting. From January to November 1884, he settled in Rouen, where Camille Pissarro, who had guided him in his approach to Impressionism, also lives. During these 10 months spent in Rouen, he realized nearly forty paintings, mainly views of the city and its surroundings.
This is not enough to live and he goes to live with his wife and children in his family in Copenhagen. The current goes badly with the in-laws. His business is not going well. He returned to Paris in 1885 to paint full-time, leaving wife and children in Denmark, unable to afford their subsistence; It is torn by this situation. He participated, from 1879 to 1886, in the last five exhibitions of the Impressionist group.
Some of his works
Tahitian Women on the Beach 1891
When Will You Marry? 1892
Landscape near Arles 1888
Riders on the beach 1902
Martinique Landscape 1887
