Gustave Courbet
Also known as Jean Desire Gustave Courbet, Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet, Gi︠u︡stav Kurbe, Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet, Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, Gust. Courbet, G. Courbet, Courbet
French painter (1819–1877)
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Gustave Courbet was a French painter from the 19th century who became famous for rejecting the idealized subjects and styles favored by the art establishment of his time. He instead painted realistic scenes of everyday life and ordinary people, helping to establish Realism as a major movement in art history.
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Gustave Courbet, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( UK: /ˈkʊərbeɪ/ KOOR-bay; US: /kʊərˈbeɪ/ koor-BAY; French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
Courbet's paintings of the late 1840s and early 1850s brought him his first recognition. They challenged convention by depicting unidealized peasants and workers, often on a grand scale traditionally reserved for paintings of religious or historical subjects. Courbet's subsequent paintings were mostly of a less overtly political character: landscapes, seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes, and still lifes. Courbet was imprisoned for six months in 1871 for his involvement with the Paris Commune and lived in exile in Switzerland from 1873 until his death four years later.