French1819–1877
Gustave Courbet
The French painter who led Realism, insisting on painting only what he could see and giving unidealised peasants and workers the grand scale once kept for history paintings. He was imprisoned for six months in 1871 for his part in the Paris Commune, and died in Switzerland in 1877.
A life in paintings
- 1819Born
- 1839Photography is announced
Daguerre’s process is made public in Paris. Painting no longer has to be the only way to record how things look.
Source: Wikipedia - 1848Revolutions across Europe
Uprisings spread from Paris to Berlin and Vienna, and artists turn towards ordinary people and contemporary life.
Source: Wikipedia - 1874
- 1877Died
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Where to see them
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati
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