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P I S S A R R O
TEXT BY JOHN REWALD
CAMILLE PÍSSARRO was the dean of the French Impres-
sionists, A great artist, with a gentle, sensitive, and
unselfish personality, he was instrumental in organizing that
group of painters—among them Renoir, Monet, Cézanne,
Degas—which was to make such a crucial contribution to art.
Pissarro actually had little ambition to be a leader, but he
seems to have been the only one of the group to rise above
pride or personal interest to think only of their common
goal: the development of a personal style, the assertion of
their freedom of expression.
Born in 1855 at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Pissarro
came to Paris at the age of twenty-five to become a painter.
Years of poverty and adversity followed—his paintings were
scorned b} the critics, much of his work was destroyed by
the invading Germans in 1870, he suffered from increas-
ingly severe eye trouble. Yet he never lost his capacity for
enthusiasm and response, his love of...
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Fülszöveg
P I S S A R R O
TEXT BY JOHN REWALD
CAMILLE PÍSSARRO was the dean of the French Impres-
sionists, A great artist, with a gentle, sensitive, and
unselfish personality, he was instrumental in organizing that
group of painters—among them Renoir, Monet, Cézanne,
Degas—which was to make such a crucial contribution to art.
Pissarro actually had little ambition to be a leader, but he
seems to have been the only one of the group to rise above
pride or personal interest to think only of their common
goal: the development of a personal style, the assertion of
their freedom of expression.
Born in 1855 at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Pissarro
came to Paris at the age of twenty-five to become a painter.
Years of poverty and adversity followed—his paintings were
scorned b} the critics, much of his work was destroyed by
the invading Germans in 1870, he suffered from increas-
ingly severe eye trouble. Yet he never lost his capacity for
enthusiasm and response, his love of nature and the bright
spectacle of life about him, which he set down on his can-
vases with unforgettable lightness and loveliness.
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