Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne, born in 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, France, is held to be the father of Modern Art. He moved to Paris in 1861 to become a painter. There he befriended Camille Pissarro, the two liked to paint together outside. He started to exhibit his paintings with the impressionists in 1874, but in 1877 he decided to distance himself from the impressionist group to find his own path. He spent his time between Paris and the south of France and in 1900 he decided to move back to Aix-en-Provence. Cézanne was not understood during most of his life. He had his first solo exhibition in 1895 and, from then on, started to get included in more exhibitions. An exhibition after his death in 1907 served as a big influence on the cubist movement.