Hajo Duchting

The reserved, shy, yet strangely proud-seeming young painter Georges Seurat lived a secluded life in a small studio on the Boulevard de Clichy in Paris. In comparison with other 19th-century artists such as Vincent van Gogh or Paul Gauguin, he led

Perhaps best known for his exceptional apples and pears, Paul Cezanne was one of the founding fathers of modern art. Though he was underappreciated and highly criticized during his life, as time passed Cezanne's work came to be considered of inestimable importance. His method of experimentation with abstraction and perspective was an important precursor to modern painting, particularly cubism...

"Man sagt, seine Kunst verstanden nur wenige. Sein Name ist Millionen Menschen bekannt. Er hat viele Freunde, er hat auch viele Gegner; die einen nennen ihn einen, "Verfuhrer der Bourgeoisie", andere einen, Formalisten' und dritte einen "Kunstbolschewisten"", so umschreibt IIja Ehrenburg die Umstrittenheit Picassos.