“When I was in Brittany, I was inspired by”
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Émile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. He is also associated with Cloisonnism and Synthetism, two late 19th-century art movements. Less known is Bernard's liter…
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culture · French painter (1868–1941) · painter · poet · writer · illustrator · photographer · visual artist · graphic artist · sculptor · printmaker · watercolorist · also Émile Bernard, Emile Bernard, Jean Dorsal, Jean Dorsal (ps.), Henri Lebreton, Henri Lebreton (ps.)
Born 28 April 1868 · Died 16 April 1941 · Q264193
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2026· 3 entries
“my own talent was already fully developed.”
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1941· 1 entry
Died 1941-04-16.
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1936).
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1904· 2 entries
And remained there for the remainder of his life
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“[...] this creative, avant-garde young man destroyed himself in a fight against that same avant-garde he had helped to create. His rivalry with Gauguin led him out of spite along a different path: classicism. This change took place when he was living in the Middle East, in a period of great crisis. But the fact remains that the young Bernard played an essential part as an initiator for Gauguin, and that he was the inventor of a new artistic vision.”
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1893· 1 entry
Started traveling, to Egypt, Spain and Italy and after that his style became more eclectic
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1891· 1 entry
Joined a group of Symbolist painters that included Odilon Redon and Ferdinand Hodler
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1884· 1 entry
Joined the Atelier Cormon where he experimented with Impressionism and Pointillism and befriended fellow artists Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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1878· 1 entry
Where Émile attended the Collège Sainte-Barbe
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-04-28.
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