Édouard Manet

was a French painter. Édouard Manet was one of the first artists of the nineteenth century who approached subjects of the modern life. It was a key figure in the crossing of the realism to the impressionism. His early masterpiece " breakfast in the Green " and "Olympia" was taken up very much kontroversiell and served as a Brenpunkt for the young painters who would create the impressionism. Today these are looked as the turning point pictures which mark the origin of the modern art.

Édouard Manet was born in 1832 in Paris in a well-to-do and established family. Mother, Eugénie-Desirée Fournier and father, Auguste Manet.

From 1850 to 1856 Édouard Manet studied under the academic painter Thomas Couture. In his spare time he copied the old master in the Louvre. He was under influence of fringing neck, Diegos Velázquez and Franciscos de Goya. Shortly after he opened his own studio. His early style was characterised by free brushstrokes, simplification of details and the suppression of transitional tones. The topical style of the realism begun by Gustave Courbet accepting, he painted " the absinthe alcoholic " and the other contemporary subjects, like beggar, singer, Gipsy, people in cafés, and bullfights.

An early main work " breakfast in the Green " was rejected by the Paris Salon in 1863, but he exhibited it in the drawing room of the rejected later in the year. The juxtaposition of absolutely dressed men and a naked woman was controversial with his representation according to sketch and an innovation which Édouard Manet distinguished from Courbet. The composition Édouard Manets be revealed this controversial approaching to the subject a fullness of challenging questions within the contemporary French society brought study of the old masters, but at the same time. The roughly painted style, the photographic lighting and black outlining of figures were seen as specific modern one.

He became a friend with the impressionists Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot. He was under influence of the impressionists, especially Monet and Morisot. Their influence is seen in the use from lighter-coloured, but he kept his characteristic use from black, untypical for the impressionistic painting. He painted many outside pieces, but always returned to at what he looked as the serious work of the studio.

The pictures Édouard Manets of café scenes are observations of the social life in Paris of the nineteenth century. Many of these pictures been based on sketches carried out there and then and are painted in a loose style which refers to neck and Velázquez.

Édouard Manet died in 1883 in Paris of untreated syphilis and Rheumatismus at the age of 51 years.