Discover sculptor, decorative painter, graphic artist Auguste Renoir

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: Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Qualifications: sculptor, decorative painter, graphic artist, lithographer, painter, watercolorist, pastelist, porcelain painter, print artist, draftsperson

Nationality/school: French

Born: Limoges (France) 1841-02-25

Deceased: Cagnes 1919-12-02/1919-12-17
Bénézit: 1919-12-03 // Saur-index: 1919-12-02 or 1919-12-17 // Thieme/Becker: 1919-12-02

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3 hits in RKDimages as artist
132 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1854 - 1919

Education: Écoles impériales des Beaux-Arts (École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts)

1862-1864 (Distel 2009)
École des Beaux-Arts (Parijs)

1863 en 1864 École des Beaux-Arts

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Parijs 1844
in 1844 verhuisde de familie Renoir naar Parijs
Parijs 1854 - 1919
begon in 1854 zijn loopbaan als porseleinschilder bij Levy frères et Compagnie in Parijs (Adriani 1996)
Argenteuil 1873
verbeef de zomer bij Claude Monet (Distel 2009)
Algerije 1881
L'Estaque (Marseille) 1882
Aix-en-Provence 1888
bezocht in de lente van 1888 Paul Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence
Provence (streek) 1891
Pont-Aven
Cagnes 1898
bracht in 1898 waarschijnlijk zijn eerste bezoek aan Cagnes
Nederland 1898
Amsterdam (stad) 1898
reisde in oktober 1898 naar Amsterdam voor de grote Rembrandt tentoonstelling (Adriani 1996)
Volendam 1898
logeerde in 1898 in hotel Spaander te Volendam
Amersfoort (plaats) 1898
Cannes (Frankrijk) 1902
Cagnes 1906 - 1919

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Gleyre, Charles
ging in 1861 lessen in modeltekenen volgen bij Charles Gleyre (Adriani 1996)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Faivre, Abel
Manet-Rouart, Julie
Umehara, Ryûzaburô
Val
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Rivera, Diego
Laprade, Pierre
Leprin, Marcel François
Roussel, Ker Xavier
Faistauer, Anton
Nölken, Franz
Glackens, William James
Picasso, Pablo
Beesen, Louis van der
De Fiori, Ernesto
André, Albert
Bissière, Roger
Camoin, Charles
Frieseke, Frederick Carl

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: animal painting (genre), figure, genre, landscape (genre), marine (genre), mythology, nude figure, portrait, Christian religious scene, still life, flower piece, game piece (still life), fish piece, fruit piece, topography

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Impressionism

Member of

Salon de Paris (Parijs)
vanaf 1864
Salon des Indépendants
exposeerde in 1874 op de eerste tentoonstelling van de Société des Artistes Indépendants

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 132 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 28 (1934), p. 169-171 (as: Renoir, Auguste (Pierre A.))
Arnhem 1958 , p. 36, nr. 269
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 8, p. 690-694 (as: Renoir, Pierre Auguste)
Busse 1977 , p. 1037 (as: Renoir, Auguste Pierre)
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 257 (as: Renoir, Pierre Auguste)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 125-126
Adriani 1996 , p. 318-325
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 11, p. 581-587 (as: Renoir, Pierre Auguste)
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 8, p. 328 (as: Renoir, Auguste (Renoir, Pierre Auguste))
Kraan 2002 , p. 194, 336, 414
Dauberville 2007 , vol. 1(2007)
Distel 2009
Durand-Ruel 2014 , passim

K. Scheffler, 'Die Sammlung Alfred Cassirer', Kunst und Künstler 28 (1930), p. 450-460
E. Jellema-Van Woelderen, 'De Clown van Renoir in het museum Kröller-Müller', Simiolus 1 (1966-'67), p. 46-50
A. Pingeot et al., La Sculpture Française au XIXe Siècle, Paris 1986
H. Henkels, 'Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: de collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41 (1993), p. 155-295
J. van Adrichem, De ontvangst van de moderne kunst in Nederland 1910-2000.Picasso als pars pro toto, Amsterdam 2001, p. 76 en passim
Th. Blisniewski, 'Pierre-Auguste Renoir und Richard Guino', Kölner museums-Bulletin, 2002, nr. 4, p. 34-44
J.House, 'Renoir and Algeria', Apollo 159 (2003), p. 57-58
V. Bougault, 'Le déjeuner des canotiers de Renoir', in: Connaissance des Arts, nr. 618, juillet-août 2004, p. 114-117
A. Haudiquet, 'De Courbet à Matisse. La donation Senn-Foulds au musée Malraux du Havre', La Revue du Louvre, 2 april 2005, p. 22-26
V. Bougault, 'De Renoir à Renoir, père et fils', Connaissance des Arts nº 632 (oktober 2005), p. 80-85
A. Burnstock e.a., 'Painitng techniques of Pierre-Auguste Renoir: 1868-1919', Art Matters 3 (2005), p. 47-65
C.B. Bailey, 'Portrait de Renoir en paysagiste', Connaissance des Arts 647 (maart 2007), p. 68-73
A. McDonald Watson, 'James duncan Benmore, the First Owner of Renoir's ''Bay of Naples'' ', Metropolitan Museum Journal 43 (2008), p. 195-200
M. Jonkman, E. Geudeker, Mythen van het atelier. Werkplaats en schilderpraktijk van de negentiende-eeuwse Nederlandse kunstenaar, Zwolle 2010, p. 147

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zie afdeling MHK voor foto's gemaakt door V.S.P. Esser van beeldhouwwerken

Archive location: archief Firma E.J. van Wisselingh & Co.
Project: Dreaming of Holland
Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)
Modern sculpture

External links: Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.2137a
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.2137b

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Creation date: 1992-01-24; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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