Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard, born in 1867 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, was an artist belonging to the Symbolist and later the Impressionist Movement. He trained to become a lawyer and started taking painting classes at the Académie Julian. It was only five years after that, in 1891, when he decided to rent a studio and become an artist. He was part of the group, the Nabis, which included painters such as Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard. At the start of the new century, he started taking trips around Europe to find his own style and distance himself from the Parisian trends. His new style reinterpreted the way the Impressionists painted. He died in Le Cannet in 1947 at the age of 79.