Bernard, Emile
(b Lille, 28 April 1868; d Paris, 15 April 1941). French painter and writer. He was the son of a cloth merchant. Relations with his parents were never harmonious, and in 1884, against his father’s wishes, he enrolled as a student a
Bernard, Emile
(b Lille, 28 April 1868; d Paris, 15 April 1941). French painter and writer. He was the son of a cloth merchant. Relations with his parents were never harmonious, and in 1884, against his father’s wishes, he enrolled as a student at the Atelier Cormon in Paris. There he became a close friend of Louis Anquetin and Toulouse-Lautrec. In suburban views of Asnières, where his parents lived, Bernard experimented with Impressionist and then Pointillist colour theory, in direct opposition to his master’s academic teaching; an argument with Fernand Cormon led to his expulsion from the studio in 1886. He made a walking tour of Normandy and Brittany that year, drawn to Gothic architecture and the simplicity of the carved Breton calvaries. In Concarneau he struck up a friendship with Claude-Emile Schuffenecker and met Gauguin briefly in Pont-Aven. During the winter Bernard met van Gogh and frequented the shop of the colour merchant Julien-François Tanguy, where he gained access to the little-known work of Cézanne.
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Bernard, Emile
Gauguin, Paul
Gauguin, Paul, §1(iii): 1888: Pont-Aven and Emile Bernard
Le Barc de Boutteville, Louis
Tapestry, §II, 5: 1801–1914
exhibitions
Schuffenecker, Emile
groups and movements
Cloisonnism
Pont-Aven
Post-Impressionism, §2: Development in France and elsewhere
Salon de la Rose + Croix
Symbolism, §2: Symbolism in the visual arts
patrons and collectors
Gauguin, Paul, §1(v): 1889–91: Pont-Aven, Le Pouldu, Paris
pupils
Aguéli, Ivan
works
France, §XI, 3: Embroidery
Lithography, §II, 2(ii)(a): Fine art developments, 1818–89
Synthetism
Vollard, Ambroise
Woodcut, §II, 5: 19th century
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