- Year of birth: November 14, 1840
- Date of death: December 5, 1926
- Country: France
- Locations of the artist’s works: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Metropolitan Museum Hermitage Museum d’Orsay Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Biography:
Claude Monet was the artist who not only became one of the founders of Impressionism, but also gave the name to this direction of painting. It was because of his painting, describing the sunrise in the port of Le Havre, that the new artistic current would later be called so. The painter was born in 1840 into a grocer’s family in Paris, but he spent his youth in Normandy in Le Havre, where his family moved in 1845. From his early years there he was engaged in drawing and even made money by it–the cartoons in his performance sold well enough in the grocery store of his father. It was there that he met his first teacher, Eugène Boudin. At the age of 20, Monet was drafted into the army. He ended up serving in Algeria, but not two years later the painter contracted typhoid fever and his aunt helped him pay for his service. Returning to France, Claude entered the university, but was dissatisfied with the approach to teaching and left his studies, going to the studio of painting, organized by Charles Gleir. This studio brought him into contact with artists such as Renoir, Cisley, and Basil. In them he found like-minded artists and together with them formed the center of the birth of Impressionism. Claude Monet was married twice. The first time to Camille Doncier, the second time to Alice Auchede. His portrait of Camille, painted four years before their marriage, in 1860, brought the artist fame. This marriage lasted 9 years, until his wife died of tuberculosis. She died in 1879, leaving the artist two sons. For most of that time the family lived in the village of Argantay near Paris, and some of the master’s best paintings were painted there. Monet married a second time only 13 years later, in 1892, and lived with Alice Hochede for 18 years. Their marriage also ended with the death of his wife. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War prompted the artist to move to England in 1870 and then to the Netherlands. His stay in the Netherlands was a very productive period in his work – he painted 25 paintings in Zandam. Immediately after his return in 1872, Monet painted his famous painting Impression. Rising Sun”. The picture was shown at the exhibition of 1874. In 1893, together with his second wife, the artist moved to the town of Giverny, where he spent the rest of his life. Even after operations on his eyes in 1912 because of a double cataract, he did not stop painting. The great artist died in 1926, having outlived Degas by 6 years and Renoir by 4 and not lived 15 years before a new recognition of his work. He is buried in Giverny in the church cemetery.
Paintings by Claude Monet
Basil And Camille
The Banks Of The Seine. Veteuil
Capuchin Boulevard
Flowers
The Lady With The Umbrella
Lady In The Garden Of St. Andress
The Customs Officer’S Cabin In Varangerville
Women In The Garden
Lilies
Maquis
The Sea
Sunflowers
Walking
Pond With Water Lilies
The Artist’S Garden In Giverny
Magpie
A Haystack In Giverny
A Haystack Near Giverny
Terrace In St. Andres
Poplars
Tulips Of Holland
Garden Corner In Mongeron
Water Lilies
St. Lazare Station
Sunrise
Chrysanthemums
Breakfast On The Grass
The Houses Of Parliament In London
