Claude Monet

was born on the 14th November, 1840 in Paris. A few years later his family went to the port Le Havre in Normandy where his father led marine material trade. Claude Monet spent the biggest part of his youth in Le Havre, he drew caricatures of the local, a talent which brought him at school difficulties. Claude Monet was a rebel, and he often ignored the rules.

Regardless of the insubordination of her son at school Louise Monet was encouraged by the budding talent of her son very much. At the age of fifteen sold Claude Monet Karikaturen for 20 francs what did not please his parents who were well-to-do by her business. Claude Monet still continued drawing caricatures and been not interested really in the painting, until he met Eugene Boudin, the man who would become his mentor. Boudin encouraged young Claude Monet to paint physical scenes what should play an important role in the development of the young artist.

Louise Monet briefly died after the very first exhibit of her son, but his aunt, Marie-Jeanne, soon took over the worry and support of the gifted teenager who showed sign of his true talent as a painter.

Claude Monet went away in the famous École of the Beaux-Arts to study, but as a true rebel he rejected the traditional settings of the school to the art and departed to study in the Académie Suisse where he deepened his skills further and met Camille Pissarro and Gustave Courbet.

After short business hours with the military Claude Monet returned to Le Havre where he met another artist, Johan Barthold Jongkind who also helps to form his style. Shortly after Claude Monet to the studio of the Swiss painter Charles Gleyre joins in Paris where he meets with other gifted artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille and with these the impressionistic movement to the world bringing. It was clear that Claude Monet became fast the leader of this group, debates inciting and a rebellious setting of his equals the artistic establishment demanding.

But it happened only a year later when Claude Monet discovered the work of Edouard Manet in the Martinet's that he would find true inspiration. Then Claude Monet paints " in the fresh air ", in the wood of Fontainebleau with his friend Bazille.

Eager by Manet, Claude Monet worked on big canvases and he had become so a perfectionist that he denied to be reflected if the light of the sun did not reflect exactly the kind as he wanted it. In an example he let even dig up a ditch and mount a big canvas on ropes and roles, so that he could work without losing his perspective.

Although Claude Monet painted primarily physical scenes, he sometimes enclosed human figures in his pictures. One day he had asked his friend Bazille and a lady called Camille Doncieux to pose for a picture of a picnic (Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe); there he did not know yet that she would become one day his lover, his woman and the subject of many of his works.

When Jean who was born the first son of Claude Monet got Claude Monet Schwierigkeiten with his Sehkraftzu; this was only one of a lot of misfortune which should torment him and Camille; his family had denied him for his respect with Camille and her illegitimate pregnancy, none of the pictures which he had shown in the international sea exhibit in Le Havre was sold and his debts were so high that believer his pictures had taken as an additional security. In a point he was so depressed, that to commit even tried suicide he.

But Claude and Camilles friends were always nearby and helped the pair by her miseries; Mr. Gaudibert instructed Claude Monet for a full-size portrait of Mrs. Gaudibert. These sales helped to get over Claude and Camille the heavy times.

Briefly after they married, Claude and Camille were made go to London, England to escape from hardening the French-Prussian war of 1870. During his stay Claude Monet painted there several pictures and had several successful exhibits. Then he returned to France and sat down with his family in the village Argenteuil where he continued working and selling pictures.

In 1874 Claude Monet organised the very first impressionism exhibit, which the works of dimensions like Cézanne, Renoir, Pissaro, Sisley and his mentor Eugene Boudin to mention only some of more than thirty artists in the studio of Nadar showed. First the critics were not too friendly to the works the artist which offended against the status quo of the art world, but she soon let the following exhibits and constant public success come to a more favorable judgment.

After the sales of some of his works on Edouard Manet, moved Claude Monet and his family which had now the second son, Michel, to Vétheuil where they divided a residence with Ernest and Alice Hoschedé who had bought a big collection of the works from Claude Monet in the past. In a cruel idiom of the destiny did the family Hoschedé bankrupt and had to sell her collection nearly for nothing.

A year later Camille and Alice Hoschedé died the worry about the children Claude Monets took over. Three years later Claude Monet moved to Giverny where he would remain up to his death 43 years later. Claude Monet devoted himself in Giverny of the garden work; his famous water lily pictures are a good example of the symbiotic respect which existed between between Claude Monet and the nature.

Claude Monet was a true master, a true genius. His understanding of light and colour helped him to create some of the most important impressionistic pictures in the history of the art.

Claude Monet died on the 5th December, 1926 in Giverny