Paul-Émile Pissarro

Paul-Émile Pissarro, also Paulémile Pissarro or Paul Émile Pissarro (22 August 1884 in Éragny-sur-Epte, France – 20 January 1972 in Clécy in the department of Calvados, France) was a French impressionist and neo-impressionist painter. He came from the Pissarro family of artists.

Life Paul-Émile Pissarro was the fifth and youngest son of the impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julia (née Vellay). His siblings were Lucien, Jeanne, Félix, Georges Henri Manzana, Ludovic Rodolphe and Jeanne (Cocotte).

He grew up in the artistic surroundings of the family household in Paris.

On his father's death in 1903, Paul-Émile returned to his mother in Éragny. The painter Claude Monet, who lived in the nearby Giverny, had been one of Camille's closest friends and was Paul-Émiles godfather; By the outbreak of the First World War he had just seriously started working as an artist. On account of his health he was freed from military service, which left him free to travel and to paint during the war.

His brother arranged exhibitions for him in the New English Art Club (NEAC), the Baillie Gallery and at the Allied Artists Association in London.

By the 1920s Paul-Émile Pissarro was established as a neo-impressionist painter. ) and surroundings offered him subjects for paintings, in particular the pastures, meadows and hills through which the river Epte peacefully flows. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Paul-Émile finally found his person style and reached the summit of his artistic development. – in which he could concentrate on his favourite subject, reflections in still waters. In this period he abandoned unmixed colours and deployed a palette with many mixed colours until finally he used brushes less and less and palette knives more and more. which brought broader recognition for his work and a degree of success as a painter which few other members of the Pissarro family achieved. After his death in 1972 Paul-Émile Pissarro's works were exhibited internationally several times. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Work

Paul-Émile Pissarro painted portraits and landscapes. He painted small villages in the Midi such as Treignac et Uzerche,

"M. Paulemile Pissarro had always a fond eye for the rustic scene, but engaging in their simplicity of treatment are his country-town impressions, such as Soliesville and Uzerche (p. 66 and p. 67)."

In Jewish Art. An illustrated history, Cecil Roth described Paul-Émile Pissarro's works in 1961 as:

"Paul-Emile Pissarro (born 1884) is known for his sensitive landscapes of the Ile de France and for his fine etchings."

Literatur Stern Art Dealers: Paulémile Pissarro, 1884–1972, Retrospective Exhibition: Stern Art Dealers, London, 24th November to 20th December 1997. London 1997 Anne Thorold, Kristen Erickson: Camille Pissarro and his family: the Pissarro collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Biografie und Autobiografie. Ashmolean Museum, 1993, p. 74 Adrian M. Darmon (ed.): Around Jewish Art: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers Carnot, 2003. Entry Paulémile Pissarro, p. 93 → online (in French) Charles Kunstler: Trente-neuf reproductions de tableaux dont trois portraits par C. Pissarro. Girard & Brunino, Paris 1928

(in German) Hans Vollmer: Pissarro, Paul Emile in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts Vol 3: 3: K–P, p. 596. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1956

Links

Gemälde von Paul Émile Pissarro In: Stern Pissarro Gallery → online