Artist "Claude Monet"

More about the Artist "Claude Monet"

Claude Monet (* November 14, 1840 in Paris; † December 5, 1926 in Giverny, born Oscar-Claude Monet) was an important French painter whose middle creative period is assigned to the style of Impressionism.

The early work up to the mid-1860s includes realistic paintings, some of which Monet exhibited at the Paris Salon. In the late 1860s, Claude Monet began to paint Impressionist paintings. An example of his paintings of this creative period is Impression, Sunrise, a harbor view of Le Havre, which gave the name to the whole movement. Thus he moved away from the taste of the time, influenced by the traditional art academies, which worsened his financial situation.

In the 1870s, Monet participated in some of the Impressionist exhibitions, in which artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas also took part, and was promoted in particular by the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel.

Monet's financial situation remained strained until the 1890s. During this time, Monet developed the concept of the series, according to which he painted a motif in different light moods. In addition, he began to lay out his famous garden in Giverny, which he subsequently also used as a motif for his paintings.