“It is not often that one encounters so complete an expression of poverty and so, right then and there I got the idea for a painting.”
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Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important pl…
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culture · French realist painter (1819–1877) · painter · sculptor · communard · draftsperson · visual artist · artist · also Gustave Courbet, Jean Desire Gustave Courbet, Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet, Gi︠u︡stav Kurbe, Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet, Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet
Born 10 June 1819 · Died 31 December 1877 · Q34618
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2026· 2 entries
“painted the very people who had been present at the interment, all the townspeople”
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2023· 1 entry
The University of Cambridge returned Courbet's painting La Ronde Enfantine, which was stolen in 1941 by the Nazis in Paris
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1877· 4 entries
Died 1877-12-31.
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“Nie może być szkoły – mogą być tylko artyści.”
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“(…) każdy artysta powinien być sobie własnym nauczycielem (…).”
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“Żadna epoka nie może być odzwierciedlona przez nikogo innego jak przez swych własnych artystów, to jest artystów, którzy w niej żyli… W tym właśnie rozumieniu odrzucam sztukę historyczną stosowaną do przeszłości. Sztuka historyczna jest z samej swej istoty współczesna. Każda epoka powinna posiadać swoich artystów, którzy by ją wyrażali i odzwierciedlali dla przyszłości.”
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1873· 1 entry
The newly elected president of the Republic, Patrice de MacMahon, announced plans to rebuild the column, with the cost to be paid by Courbet
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1871· 1 entry
For his involvement with the Paris Commune and lived in exile in Switzerland from 1873 until his death four years later
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1855· 1 entry
Courbet submitted fourteen paintings for exhibition at the Salon of 1855, part of the Exposition Universelle
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1850· 1 entry
Courbet wrote to a friend:
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1848· 1 entry
And a foundational text of Marxist art history
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1839· 1 entry
And worked at the studio of Steuben and Hesse
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1819· 2 entries
Born 1819-06-10.
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To Régis and Sylvie Oudot Courbet in Ornans (department of Doubs)
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