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Paul Cézanne

1839 - 1906

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Paul Cézanne ( say-ZAN, UK also siz-AN, US also say-ZAHN; French: [pɔl sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century, whose work formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th century Cubism. While his early works were influenced by Romanticism – such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house – and Realism, Cézanne arrived at a new pictorial language through intense examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He altered conventional approaches to perspective and broke established rules of academic art by emphasizing the underlying structure of objects in a composition and the formal qualities of art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Cézanne has received more than 4,265,660 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Paul Cézanne is the 16th most popular painter (up from 17th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from France (up from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Painter.

Paul Cézanne is most famous for his still life paintings, landscapes, and portraits. He is often considered the father of modern art.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paul Cézanne ranks 16 out of 2,023. Before him are Peter Paul Rubens, Frida Kahlo, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, and Henri Matisse. After him are Sandro Botticelli, El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Paul Gauguin, Piet Mondrian, and Titian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Paul Cézanne ranks 1. After him are John D. Rockefeller, Sully Prudhomme, Modest Mussorgsky, Alfred Sisley, Charles Sanders Peirce, Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Josephine Cochrane, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. Among people deceased in 1906, Paul Cézanne ranks 1. After him are Pierre Curie, Henrik Ibsen, Christian IX of Denmark, Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, Susan B. Anthony, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Georgy Gapon, and Anton Arensky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Cézanne ranks 21 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles de Gaulle (1890), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alain Delon (1935), Henri Matisse (1869), and John Calvin (1509). After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Napoleon II (1811), Auguste Comte (1798), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), and Denis Diderot (1713).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Paul Cézanne ranks 3. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), and Henri Matisse (1869). After him are Paul Gauguin (1848), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Édouard Manet (1832), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864).

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