Paul Cezanne
(1839-1906)
Paul Cezanne, a French artist and a Post-Impressionist painter, was born on 19 January 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, in Provence in the south of France. At the age of ten, Paul entered the Saint Joseph boarding-school, where he studied drawing under Joseph Gibert. In 1852 Cйzanne entered the College Bourbon, where he met and became friends with Emile Zola. From 1859 to 1861, complying with his father's wishes, Cezanne attended the law school at the University of Aix, while also receiving drawing lessons. In 1861 Cezanne left Aix for Paris, where he met the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. Cezanne's paintings were shown at the first exhibition of the Salon des Refusйs in 1863. The Salon rejected Cezanne's paintings every year from 1864 to 1869. Cezanne continued to submit his works to the Salon until 1882. That year Cezanne exhibited “Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cezanne, Father of the Artist” (1866). Before 1895 Cezanne exhibited twice with the Impressionists (at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877). From 1903 to the end of his life, he painted in his studio. The artist died on 22 October 1906. He died of pneumonia.
