Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne (January 19, 1839 to October 22, 1906) was a recluse. He preferred to keep to himself, and his neighbors considered him a fool. He hated his family, which did not support him on his artistic path, and called them “the meanest people in the world”. Distrustful of critics, Cézanne had a very narrow circle of friends, and until 1895 he exhibited his paintings only occasionally. In 1861, he moved to Paris to live with his friend, the writer Emile Zola. In this more modern and advanced city, he finally found a circle of artists in which he managed to join – they were associated with a new style of painting, Impressionism.

Four years before his death, Paul Cezanne built his own painting studio on the outskirts of Aix, and it was here that his last important works were created. In 1906, an outdoor artist was trying to paint the Sainte-Victorie mountain when he was caught in a sudden storm. He had to be carried home completely drenched in a laundry cart, and a few days later, completely weakened also from diabetes, he died at his home.