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Paul Cézanne

1839 - 1906

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Paul Cézanne ( say-ZAN, UK also siz-AN, US also say-ZAHN; French: [pɔl sezan]; Occitan: Pau Cesana; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism. While his early works were influenced by Romanticism – such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house – and Realism, Cézanne arrived at a new pictorial language through intense examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He altered conventional approaches to perspective and broke established rules of academic art by emphasizing the underlying structure of objects in a composition and the formal qualities of art. Cézanne strived for a renewal of traditional design methods on the basis of the impressionistic colour space and colour modulation principles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Cézanne is the 20th most popular painter (down from 16th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from France (down from 21st in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Painter.

Paul Cézanne is most famous for his still life paintings, landscapes, and portraits. He is often considered the father of modern art.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paul Cézanne ranks 20 out of 2,023. Before him are Sandro Botticelli, Edvard Munch, Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. After him are Paul Gauguin, Giotto, Donatello, Titian, Gustav Klimt, and El Greco.

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Among people born in 1839, Paul Cézanne ranks 1. After him are John D. Rockefeller, Sully Prudhomme, Modest Mussorgsky, Jamsetji Tata, Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. Among people deceased in 1906, Paul Cézanne ranks 1. After him are Pierre Curie, Henrik Ibsen, Christian IX of Denmark, Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, Raja Ravi Varma, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgy Gapon.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Cézanne ranks 33 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Alain Delon (1935), Auguste Comte (1798), and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780). After him are Coco Chanel (1883), John Calvin (1509), Louis XIII of France (1601), Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), and Napoleon III (1808).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Paul Cézanne ranks 5. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), Henri Matisse (1869), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780). After him are Paul Gauguin (1848), Édouard Manet (1832), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Nicolas Poussin (1594).

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