Nathalia Brodskaya: 53 books

Kurz vor seinem Tod schrieb Claude Monet: „Es tut mir noch immer Leid, dass ich verantwortlich bin für den Namen einer Gruppe von Malern, von denen die meisten ganz und gar keine Impressionisten waren.“ Monet charakterisierte seine Einstellung zur Malerei so: „Ich male, was ich sehe, und nicht...

Die Epoche des Postimpressionismus war eine Epoche der einsiedlerischen Maler: Gauguin, Sisley, Cézanne, van Gogh etc.... „Es gibt nicht mehr die eine Schule. Es gibt nur noch ein paar Gruppen und die spalten sich ständig. All diese Strömungen erinnern mich an die beweglichen geometrischen Figuren...

Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons. Anchored in his epoch, relying on the new chromatic...

Si l’Impressionnisme marqua les premiers pas vers la peinture moderne en révolutionnant un milieu artistique étouffé par les conventions académiques, le Post-Impressionnisme, plus révolutionnaire encore, libéra totalement la couleur et lui ouvrit des horizons alors inconnus. Ancré dans son...

For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on 25 February 1841. In 1854, the boy’s parents took him from school and found a place for him in the Lévy brothers’ workshop, where he was to learn to paint porcelain. Renoir’s younger brother Edmond had this to say this about the move: “From what...

A painter of the Impressionist movement, Alfred Sisley was born on October 30th 1839 in Paris but was of British origin. He died on January 29th 1899 in Moret-sur-Loing. Growing up in a musical family, he chose to pursue painting rather than the field of business. In 1862 he enrolled in Gleyre’s...

“Father Pissarro”, as his friends liked to call him, was the most restrained of the artists of the Impressionist movement. Perhaps it was his age, being older than his fellow artists Monet, Sisley, Bazille, and Renoir, or rather his maturity, which resulted in his works having such serene and...

Nicolas de Staël, peintre français de famille russe, est né le 5 janvier 1914 à Saint-Pétersbourg et mort le 16 mars 1955 à Antibes. Son œuvre fut très fortement influencée par Cézanne, Van Gogh, Braque, Matisse et certains grands maîtres comme Rembrandt et Vermeer. Nicolas de Staël est...

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice, 1798 – Paris, 1863) Delacroix fut l'un des plus grands coloristes du XIXe siècle. La couleur était pour lui un moyen d'expression déterminant, qui avait la préséance sur la forme et les détails. Il parlait à l'oeil, moins à la raison. Il...

For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed...

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban, 1780 – Paris, 1867) Ingres sembla d'abord destiné à reprendre le flambeau de son maître David, dans l'art à la fois du portrait et de la peinture historique. Il gagna le Prix de Rome en 1801, où il ne se rendit que 6 ans plus tard à cause de la situation...

Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist’s circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings. Degas did not attend Gleyre’s studio; most likely he first met the future impressionists at the Café Guerbois. He started his apprenticeship in 1853...

Lautrec studied with two of the most admired academic painters of the day, Léon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon. Lautrec’s time in the studios of Bonnat and Cormon had the advantage of introducing him to the nude as a subject. At that time life-drawing of the nude was the basis of all academic art training...