Pierre-Auguste Renoir

was a French artist who was one of the most important painters in the development of the impressionistic style. As an admirer of the beauty and especially female sensuousness, it was said that " Renoir the last representative of a tradition is which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau ".

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, skin-Vienna, France, as a child of a working-class family. As a boy Pierre-Auguste Renoir worked in a porcelain factory where his talents led to the fact that he was selected to paint designs on the fine porcelain. Pierre-Auguste Renoir also painted follower and decorations for überseeische missions, before he signed up in the art school. During those early years he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters.

In 1862 Pierre-Auguste Renoir started to study under Charles Gleyre in Paris Kunst. There he met Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, and Claude Monet. Although Pierre-Auguste Renoir began in 1864 to exhibit pictures in the Paris Salon, no recognition came other ten years. The pictures of Pierre-Auguste Renoir are noteworthy for her lively, light and full colour, mostly persons in intimate and frank compositions. The naked woman was one of his primary subjects. In the typical impressionistic style Pierre-Auguste Renoir suggested the details of a scene by freely controlled lines of the colour. A nice example of the early work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and with the influence of the realism of Courbet, is "Diana", in 1867. By the end of the 1860s, by which to times outside, discovered Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his friend Claude Monet that the colour of shade is not brown or black, but reflected the colour of the objects which they surround.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir found out his first recognition when six his pictures were shown in the first impressionistic exhibit in 1874. In the same year two his works were shown with Durand-Ruel in London. In 1881 Pierre-Auguste Renoir travelled to Algeria, a land, which he with Eugene Delacroix assozierte, then to Madrid and to Italy. One of the best of all known impressionistic works is " a dance in Le Moulin de la Galette " from Renoir, in 1876. The painting draws an open-air scene, overcrowds with people, in a popular dance garden in Montmartre.

In 1890 he married Aline Victorine Charigot with whom he had a son, Pierre. In 1907 Pierre-Auguste Renoir on a farm moved in Cagnes-sur-Mer near the Mediterranean coast. Pierre-Auguste Renoir had arthritis which limited his movement strongly and he was bound to the wheel chair. In the advanced stage of his arthritis Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted, while he strapped down a paintbrush in his paralyzed fingers.

After 1890 Pierre-Auguste Renoir changed his style, returned to the use of the thinly painted colour and resolution of the outlines. From this period he concentrated especially on monumental acts and inside scenes from which nice examples are " girls in the piano ", in 1892, and "Grandes Baigneuses", in 1918-19.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a fertile artist. He painted several thousand pictures. The warm sensuousness of the style Renoirs did his pictures best known and most often reproduced in the history of the art.

In 1919 Pierre-Auguste Renoir visited the Louvre to see hanging his pictures with the old masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir died on the 3rd December in village Cagnes-sur-Mer, of the Côte d'Azur.