Gauguin
By Ingo F Walther.
Description
A Frenchman in Tahiti: Gauguin’s search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently—when private difficulties caused him to become restless—embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature, to Tahiti. The paintings created from this time to his de...
ISBN(s)
3836543435, 9783836543439
