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Short biography from the French Post Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin ( 1848 - 1903 ). |
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The French Post Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, also know as Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin born in 1848, Paris, France. When Louis Napoleon take the power the family Gauguin moved to Lima, Peru. He returned back to France in 1855 and stay with his Uncle in Orleans. Gauguin became a sailor man in 1865 and traveled between South America and France for three years. The first Drawings we know about him are from 1871 when he was nearly at the age of 30. Together with his friend Claude Emile Schuffenecker, they went to the Colarossi Academy to start studied paintings. Gauguin met in 1874 Pissarro and other famous Impressionists Artists. He was influenced by Cezanne and Pissarro. The French Post Impressionist painter stayed and worked in England from 1886 till 1888. After that he stayed in Arles with the Famous Dutch Painter Vincent van Gogh. In 1891 Gauguin went to Tahiti, returned in 1893 to Paris, in 1894 went to Copenhagen and visited Tahiti in 1895 for the 2nd time. He was very ill, alcoholism, syphilis, financial problems and depressions but still made paintings. After be in Prison for three months, he died in 1903. |
The French Post Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. |
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