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Pont-Aven School (french: École de Pont-Aven, br, Skol Pont Aven) encompasses works of art influenced by the Breton town of
Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven (, Breton: 'River Bridge') is a commune in the Finistère department in the Brittany region in Northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 2,821.
Demographics
Inhabitants of Pont-Aven are called ''Pontavenistes'' in French ...
and its surroundings. Originally the term applied to works created in the artists' colony at Pont-Aven, which started to emerge in the 1850s and lasted until the beginning of the 20th century. Many of the artists were inspired by the works of
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...
, who spent extended periods in the area in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Their work is frequently characterised by the bold use of pure colour and their
Symbolist choice of subject matter.
Background
Pont-Aven is a
commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
of the
Finistère
Finistère (, ; br, Penn-ar-Bed ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090. ''
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety ...
'', in
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...
, France, some distance inland from where the river
Aven meets the Atlantic Ocean. From the 1850s painters began to frequent the village of Pont-Aven, wanting to spend their summers away from the city, on a low budget in a picturesque place not yet spoilt by tourism. Gauguin first worked in Pont-Aven in 1886.
[ When he returned in 1888, the situation had changed: Pont-Aven was already crowded, and Gauguin looked for an alternative place to work which he found, in 1889, in Le Pouldu (today part of the community of ]Clohars-Carnoët
Clohars-Carnoët (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The beach resort of Le Pouldu, with the beaches of Bellangenet and Kerrou, is located in the town.
Geography
The commune has two small harbours: ...
), some miles off to the East at the mouth of the river Laïta
The Laïta ( br, Laeta) is a river in Brittany in northwestern France. It was the traditional border between the medieval realms or counties of Cornouaille and Gwened and now forms part of the border between the departments of Finistère and ...
, traditionally the border of the Morbihan
Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastli ...
département. There, Gauguin, accompanied by Meijer de Haan
Meijer Isaac de Haan (Amsterdam, April 14, 1852 – Amsterdam, October 24, 1895) was a Dutch painter. In French the name was written Meyer de Haan.
Biography
He was born into a successful Jewish family of bread and matzo bakers who held to conse ...
, Charles Filiger
Charles Filiger (28 November 1863, Thann – 11 January 1928, Brest) was a French Symbolist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany.
Biography
The son of a wallpaper manufacturer in Mulhouse, Fili ...
and for a while by Sérusier, spent the winter of 1889/1890 and several months afterwards.
History
The opening of the railway line from Paris to Quimper
Quimper (, ; br, Kemper ; la, Civitas Aquilonia or ) is a commune and prefecture of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Administration
Quimper is the prefecture (capital) of the Finistère department.
Geography
Th ...
in 1862 encouraged tourism in Brittany. The first group of artists to arrive in Pont-Aven during the summer of 1866 consisted of American art students from Philadelphia including Robert Wylie, Charles Way, Earl Shinn
Earl Shinn (November 8, 1838 – November 3, 1886) was an American art critic and art historian who often wrote under the pseudonym "Edward Strahan."
Early life and career
Shinn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest child of ...
and Howard Roberts
Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician.
Early years
Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 - a ...
. They were soon joined by three other Americans, Benjamin Champney
Benjamin Champney (November 20, 1817Champney (1900) – December 11, 1907) was a painter known for his role in White Mountain art of the 19th century. He began his training as a lithographer under celebrated marine artist Fitz Henry Lane at ...
, Frederick Bridgeman and Moses Wright, by two English painters, Lewis and Carraway, and by two Frenchmen. Over the next 15 years, the reputation of the colony spread far and wide, attracting many other painters. Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ran ...
, one of the leading French Academic painters, encouraged his American students to go there, while French landscape artists such as William Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female ...
, Louis-Nicolas Cabat
Louis-Nicolas Cabat (6 December 1812, Paris – 13 March 1893, Paris) was a French landscape painter.
He was one of the most illustrious students of Camille Flers. A member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, Cabat was elected a member of the ...
and Paul Sébillot
Paul Sébillot (6 February 1843 in Matignon, Côtes-d'Armor, France – 23 April 1918 in Paris) was a French folklorist, painter, and writer. Many of his works are about his native province, Brittany.
Early life and art
Sébillot came from an ...
also spent summers in the village. Among the other foreigners to visit were Herman van den Anker
Hermanus Franciscus Carolus "Herman" van den Anker (July 14, 1832 in Rotterdam – July 9, 1883 in Paris) was a Dutch artist who painted in Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven (, Breton: 'River Bridge') is a commune in the Finistère department in the Bri ...
from the Netherlands, Augustus Burke from Ireland and Paul Peel
Paul Peel (7 November 1860 – 3 October 1892) was a Canadians, Canadian figure painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime.
Career ...
from Canada. The English illustrator Randolph Caldecott
Randolph Caldecott (; 22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were pro ...
visited in 1880. He illustrated Henry Blackburn's ''Breton Folk: An Artistic Tour of Brittany'' (1880), one of the most popular guide-books of the time. His naive illustrations caught the imagination of the ''avant-garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...
'' visiting artists and Gauguin in particular, who is known to have imitated Caldecott's style in his drawings his first summer at Pont-Aven.
There were three hotels ready to accommodate visitors: the Hôtel de Voyageurs, the Hôtel du Lion d'Or and the Pension Gloanec
The Pension Gloanec was an inn in Pont-Aven, Brittany, France, that was a base for artists of the Pont-Aven School in the last half of the 19th century.
It was known for economical but excellent quality food, where the diners served themselves from ...
. The Pension Gloanec, where Gauguin and his circle lodged, was especially cheap. When Blackburn visited it offered ''demi-pension'', i.e. board, breakfast and evening meal with cider thrown in, for just sixty francs a month. The artists were attracted by the beauty of the surrounding countryside and the low cost of living. Many of them were looking for a new point of departure, hoping to break away from the Academic style of the École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century ...
and from Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
which was beginning to decline. Brittany opened up new horizons with its language, traditional dress, fervent Catholic belief, an oral tradition and the ubiquitous presence of granite crosses and churches.
The two most innovative painters to arrive on the scene were Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his nota ...
. Gauguin had reached in Pont-Aven in July 1886 while Bernard came later in the summer.[Thomson p. 42] When the two met again two years later, they consolidated their relationship. Bernard showed Gauguin his ''Pardon à Pont-Aven'' (1888), which some believe inspired Gauguin to paint his '' Vision après le sermon'', Bernard claiming he was the first to adopt the approach, which became known as Synthetism
Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Earlier, ''Synthetism'' has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism. ...
. Other artists who stayed with Gauguin, first at the Pension Gloanec in Pont-Aven and later at the Buvette de la Plage in Le Pouldu, were Charles Filiger
Charles Filiger (28 November 1863, Thann – 11 January 1928, Brest) was a French Symbolist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany.
Biography
The son of a wallpaper manufacturer in Mulhouse, Fili ...
, Meijer de Haan
Meijer Isaac de Haan (Amsterdam, April 14, 1852 – Amsterdam, October 24, 1895) was a Dutch painter. In French the name was written Meyer de Haan.
Biography
He was born into a successful Jewish family of bread and matzo bakers who held to conse ...
, Charles Laval
Charles Laval (17 March 1862 – 27 April 1894) was a French painter associated with the Synthetic movement and Pont-Aven School.
Laval was born in Paris, and was a contemporary and friend of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. Gauguin crea ...
, Robert Bevan
Robert Polhill Bevan (5 August 1865 – 8 July 1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group.
Early life
He was born in Bruns ...
, Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor (17 October 1860 – 18 March 1940) was an Irish painter who spent much of his later career in Paris and as part of the Pont-Aven movement. O'Conor's work demonstrates Impressionist and Post-Impressionist influence.
Early lif ...
, Émile Schuffenecker
Claude-Émile Schuffenecker (8 December 1851 – 31 July 1934) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector. A friend of Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van ...
, Armand Séguin and Władysław Ślewiński
Władysław Ślewiński (1 June 1856, in Nowy Białynin – 24 March 1918, in Paris) was a Polish painter. He was one of Gauguin's students and a leading artist of the Young Poland movement.
Biography
He was born to a landowning family and his ...
. After his first voyage to Tahiti in 1891, Gauguin returned to Pont-Aven for the last time in 1894, once again staying with his circle of friends at the Pension Gloanec.
Synthetism
The style developed in Pont-Aven by Gauguin and Bernard was known as Synthetism as it was designed to synthetise or combine images, producing a new result which was quite different from Impressionism. It relied on a number of principles including the abandonment of faithful representation, the creation of a work based on the artist's memory of the subject but reflecting his feelings while painting, bold application of pure colour, the absence of perspective and shading, the application of Cloisonnism
Cloisonnism is a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours. The term was coined by critic Édouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants, in March 1888. Artists Émile Bernard, Lou ...
's flat forms separated by dark contours, and geometrical composition free of any unnecessary detail and trimmings."Le Synthétisme"
, ''Musée de Pont-Aven''. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
Gallery
File:Paul Sérusier 001.jpg, Paul Sérusier
Paul Sérusier (9 November 1864 – 7 October 1927) was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism.
Education
Sérusier was born in Paris. He studied ...
, ''The Talisman, the Aven at the Bois d'Amour'' 1888
File:Émile Bernard 1888-08 - Breton Women in the Meadow (Le Pardon de Pont-Aven).jpg, Émile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his nota ...
, ''Breton Women in the Meadow, (Le Pardon de Pont-Aven),'' 1888.
File:Paul Gauguin 137.jpg, Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...
, ''Vision After the Sermon
''Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)'' is an oil painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, completed in 1888. It is now in the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. It depicts a scene from the Bible in which Jacob wrestles a ...
(Jacob wrestling with the angel),'' (1888), National Gallery of Scotland
The Scottish National Gallery (formerly the National Gallery of Scotland) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by W ...
File:WLANL - artanonymous - Zelfportret (1).jpg, Charles Laval
Charles Laval (17 March 1862 – 27 April 1894) was a French painter associated with the Synthetic movement and Pont-Aven School.
Laval was born in Paris, and was a contemporary and friend of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. Gauguin crea ...
, ''Self Portrait'', 1888, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum () is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opene ...
, Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
File:"Les Korrigans sous la lune - The dance of the elves of Pont-Aven" (Moonlit landscape with tall trees) by Roderic O'Conor, ca. 1898-1900.jpg, ''Les Korrigans sous la lune – The dance of the elves of Pont-Aven'' (Moonlit landscape with tall trees) by Roderic O'Conor, ca. 1898–1900
Artists working in Pont-Aven (or Le Pouldu)
Arranged by year of arrival:
*
Otto Weber (1832–1888), German, 1863
*
Henry Bacon
Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–1922), which was his final project.
Education and early career
Henr ...
(1839–1912), American, 1864
*
Charles Way
Charles Christopher Way (born December 27, 1972) is a former professional American football fullback in the National Football League for five seasons for the New York Giants.
Early life
Way was born in 1972 to Jacqueline and Cleveland Way. he ...
, American, 1864
*
Robert Wylie (1839–1877), American, 1864 until death
*
Frederick Bridgman, American, (1847–1928), 1866
*
Benjamin Champney
Benjamin Champney (November 20, 1817Champney (1900) – December 11, 1907) was a painter known for his role in White Mountain art of the 19th century. He began his training as a lithographer under celebrated marine artist Fitz Henry Lane at ...
(1817–1907), American, 1866
*
Earl Shinn
Earl Shinn (November 8, 1838 – November 3, 1886) was an American art critic and art historian who often wrote under the pseudonym "Edward Strahan."
Early life and career
Shinn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest child of ...
(1838–1886), American, 1866
*
Howard Roberts
Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician.
Early years
Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 - a ...
, (1843–1900), American, c. 1866
*
Herman van den Anker
Hermanus Franciscus Carolus "Herman" van den Anker (July 14, 1832 in Rotterdam – July 9, 1883 in Paris) was a Dutch artist who painted in Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven (, Breton: 'River Bridge') is a commune in the Finistère department in the Bri ...
, (1832–1883), Dutch, 1868
*
William Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female ...
, (1825–1893), French, 1868
*
Louis Cabat, (1812–1893), French, c. 1868
*
Milne Ramsey
Milne Ramsey was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1847 and died March 16, 1915, in Philadelphia was an American artist who painted still lifes, landscapes and nautical scenes. Ramsey studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and under ...
, (1847–1915), American, 1870
*
Clement Nye Swift
Clement Nye Swift (1846 – March 29, 1918) was an American artist associated with the Pont-Aven School and known for his paintings of nautical themes and of life in Brittany and Massachusetts.
Biography
Swift was born in 1846 in Acushnet, ...
, (1846–1918), American, 1870
*
Paul Sébillot
Paul Sébillot (6 February 1843 in Matignon, Côtes-d'Armor, France – 23 April 1918 in Paris) was a French folklorist, painter, and writer. Many of his works are about his native province, Brittany.
Early life and art
Sébillot came from an ...
, (1843–1918), French, 1873
*
Julian Alden Weir
Julian Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of the founding members of "The Ten", a loosely allied group of ...
, American, (1852–1919), 1874
*
Augustus Burke, (1838–1891), Irish, 1875
*
William Lamb Picknell
William Lamb Picknell (October 23, 1853 – August 8, 1897) was an American painter of landscapes, coastal views, and figure genres, known for his rapid painting style. He was born in Hinesburg, Vermont and died in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Li ...
, (1853–1897), American, 1876
*
Alexandre Defaux, (1826–1900), French, 1876
*
Thomas Hovenden, (1840–1895), Irish-American, 1876
*
Frank C. Penfold
Frank (Francis) Crawford Penfold (1849–1921) was an American artist and teacher, remembered for his genre, landscape and portrait paintings, many of which he completed while living in Pont-Aven in Brittany.[Henry Mosler
Henry Mosler (June 6, 1841 – April 21, 1920) was a German-born painter who documented American life, including colonial themes, Civil War illustrations, and portraits of men and women of society.
Early life
He was born in Tropplowitz, Siles ...]
, (1841–1920), American, 1879
*
Thomas Alexander Harrison, (1853–1930), American, 1880
*
Paul Peel
Paul Peel (7 November 1860 – 3 October 1892) was a Canadians, Canadian figure painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime.
Career ...
, (1860–1892), Canadian, 1881
*
Henry Rodman Kenyon
Henry may refer to:
People
* Henry (given name)
*Henry (surname)
* Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry
Royalty
* Portuguese royalty
** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal
** Henry, Count of Portugal ...
, (1861–1926), American, 1885, 1886 and 1888
*
Arthur Wesley Dow
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857 – December 13, 1922) was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator.
Early life
Arthur Wesley Dow was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1857. Dow received his first art training in 1880 from An ...
, (1857–1922), American, 1885
*
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...
(1848–1903), French, 1886, 1888, 1889–1890 and 1894
*
Émile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his nota ...
(1868–1941), French, 1886, 1888 and 1891–1893
*
Hubert Vos
Hubert Vos (February 15, 1855 – January 8, 1935) was a Dutch painter who was born Josephus Hubertus Vos in Maastricht. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and with Fernand Cormon in Paris. He exhibited widely in Pa ...
(1855–1935), Dutch, 1886
*
Charles Laval
Charles Laval (17 March 1862 – 27 April 1894) was a French painter associated with the Synthetic movement and Pont-Aven School.
Laval was born in Paris, and was a contemporary and friend of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. Gauguin crea ...
(1862–1894), French, 1886
*
Emile Schuffenecker (1851–1934), French, 1886
*
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau was a French painter. He was born in Nantes on 4 April 1864 and died in Le Croisic, Croisic on 19 September 1930.
Biography
As a young boy, du Puigaudeau was close to his uncle Henri de Chateaubriant, who encouraged his ar ...
(1864–1930), French, 1886
*
Ernest de Chamaillard
Henri Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, usually known as Ernest de Chamaillard, (9 December 1862, Gourlizon – 1931, Eaubonne) was a French artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven.
Biography
The son of a ...
(1862–1930), French, 1888
*
Meijer de Haan
Meijer Isaac de Haan (Amsterdam, April 14, 1852 – Amsterdam, October 24, 1895) was a Dutch painter. In French the name was written Meyer de Haan.
Biography
He was born into a successful Jewish family of bread and matzo bakers who held to conse ...
(1852–1895), Dutch, 1888
*
Władysław Ślewiński
Władysław Ślewiński (1 June 1856, in Nowy Białynin – 24 March 1918, in Paris) was a Polish painter. He was one of Gauguin's students and a leading artist of the Young Poland movement.
Biography
He was born to a landowning family and his ...
(1854–1918), Polish, 1889
*
Paul Sérusier
Paul Sérusier (9 November 1864 – 7 October 1927) was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism.
Education
Sérusier was born in Paris. He studied ...
(1864–1927), French, 1888, 1889 (and 1889, 1890)
*
Armand Séguin (1869–1903), French, 1891–1893
*
Charles Filiger
Charles Filiger (28 November 1863, Thann – 11 January 1928, Brest) was a French Symbolist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany.
Biography
The son of a wallpaper manufacturer in Mulhouse, Fili ...
(1863–1928), French, from 1888
*
Jan Verkade
Johannes Sixtus Gerhardus (Jan) Verkade (18 September 1868 - 19 July 1946), afterwards Willibrord Verkade O.S.B., was a Dutch Post-Impressionist and Christian Symbolist painter. A disciple of Paul Gauguin and friend of Paul Sérusier, he belon ...
(1868–1946), Dutch, 1891, 1892
*
Mogens Ballin
Mogens Ballin (20 March 1871, Copenhagen – 27 January 1914, Hellerup)
was a Danish artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven School, Pont-Aven. He later became a notable silversmith designing jewelry and ...
(1871–1914), Danish, 1891, 1892
*
Henry Moret
Henry Moret (12 December 1856 – 5 May 1913) was a French Impressionist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Paul Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany. He is best known for his involvement in the Pont-Aven artist colony and his ric ...
(1856–1913), French, from 1888
*
Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard
Henri Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, usually known as Ernest de Chamaillard, (9 December 1862, Gourlizon – 1931, Eaubonne) was a French artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven.
Biography
The son of a ...
(1862–1930), French, from 1888
*
Gustave Loiseau
Gustave Loiseau (3 October 1865 – 10 October 1935) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets. (1865–1935), French, 1890
*
Émile Jourdan
Émile Jourdan (30 July 1860, in Vannes – 29 December 1931, in Quimperlé) was a French painter who became one of the artists who gathered in the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany.
Early life
Son of Prosper Jourdan, a ranking customs officer, an ...
(1860–1931), French, from 1888
*
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (7 September 1863 – 4 April 1958) was a Danish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, architect and photographer. He became associated with the movements of Symbolism and Expressionism.
Biography
J. F. Willumsen was bor ...
(1863–1958), Danish, 1890
*
Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor (17 October 1860 – 18 March 1940) was an Irish painter who spent much of his later career in Paris and as part of the Pont-Aven movement. O'Conor's work demonstrates Impressionist and Post-Impressionist influence.
Early lif ...
(1860–1940), Irish, 1892
*
Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis (; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art, he is associated with ''Les Nabis'', symbolism, a ...
(1870–1943), French
* (1867–1949), French
*
Robert Polhill Bevan
Robert Polhill Bevan (5 August 1865 – 8 July 1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group.
Early life
He was born in Bruns ...
, English, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894
*
Cuno Amiet
Cuno Amiet (28 March 1868 – 6 July 1961) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to colour in composition, he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland.
Biography
Amiet was ...
(1868–1961), Swiss, 1892
*
Fredrich E. Wallace
See also
*
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pont-Aven
References
Sources
* Bevan, Robert. ''Robert Bevan 1865–1925. A memoir by his son'', Studio Vista, London 1965.
*
* Cariou, André: ''Les Peintres de Pont-Aven'', Éditions Ouest-France, Rennes 1994
* Jaworska, Wladyslawa: ''Gauguin et l'Ecole de Pont-Aven'', Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel 1971 (no ISBN); English edition: ''Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School'', Thames and Hudson, London 1972 ; American edition: New York Graphic Society, Greenwich Connecticut 1972
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