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Odilon Redon
Sign in to saveAlso known as Bertrand-Jean Redon, Bertrand Redon, Odilon Bertrand-Jean Redon, Odilon-Bertrand Redon, Redon, Redon O., o. redon
French painter (1840–1916)
Odilon Redon was a French painter who lived from 1840 to 1916 and became known for creating imaginative, dreamlike works that blended reality with fantasy. His distinctive artistic approach helped bridge the gap between 19th-century art movements and modern art, influencing how artists thought about expressing imagination and emotion on canvas.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1840
- Died
- 1916
- Works
- 78
Top works
- A soi-même, journal (1867-1915)
- Odilon Redon Selbstgespräch
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony
- Les débâcles
- La passante
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1840
- Active to
- 1916
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,155x
- 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2016 · cited 5,613x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,481x
- Global variation in copy number in the human genome
· 2006 · cited 3,416x
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 2,988x
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Quotes
- “Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.”
- “The artist lives only day by day, and is the recipient of the things that surround him; he transposes sensations from outside, according to what the fate reserves him, but transforms them relentlessly and tenaciously, in a manner determined by him alone.”
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Odilon Redon vers 1880.jpg
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- Commons category
- Odilon Redon
- date of birth
- 1840-04-22
- date of death
- 1916-07-06
- Commons Creator page
- Odilon Redon
- birth name
- Bertrand Redom
- Commons gallery
- Odilon Redon
- name in native language
- Odilon Redon
Sources (9)
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Works in European collections
8 objects attributed to Odilon Redon, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; French: [ɔdilɔ̃ ʁədɔ̃]; 20 April 1840 – 6 July 1916) was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter.
Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, Redon worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, works known as his noirs. He gained recognition after his drawings were mentioned in the 1884 novel À rebours (Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans. During the 1890s, Redon began working in pastel and oil, which quickly became his favorite medium, abandoning his previous style of noirs completely after 1900. He developed a keen interest in Hindu and Buddhist religion and culture, which increasingly showed in his work.