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Gustave Loiseau (3 October 1865 – 10 October 1935) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.
Gustave Loiseau (1865 - 1935) was active/lived in France.

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Gustave Loiseau

Gustave Loiseau was a french Post-Impressionist painter born on October 3rd 1865 and died on October 10th 1935 in Paris. Loiseau’s parents, butcher shop owners, moved to Paris shortly after he was born. He became an apprentice to a decorator friend of the family. His parents soon after sold their business and retired to Pontoise. This town near Paris was important in French painting at the time, its environs having been extensively depicted by Pissarro and Cezanne.

In 1887 Loiseau received a legacy from his grandmother which enabled him to give up his job and devote his life to painting; he establishes in Montmartre and enrols for a year at Decorative Art School, he followed courses in life-drawing, until an argument with his teacher prompted him to withdraw. While still working with the decorator, one of Loiseau’s jobs has been to redecorate the apartment of the painter Fernand Just Quignon. Upon his departure from school, Loiseau turns to this landscape painter as his teacher.

He left for Pont-Aven on the Brittany Coast for the first time in 1890. He b

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Gustave LOISEAU

Paris 1865 - Paris 1935

Biography

Abandoning a career as a house painter, Gustave Loiseau took up painting around 1884 and had devoted himself to it entirely by 1887. Apart from a year at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, he was largely self-taught as a painter. In 1890 he stayed for some months in the town of Pont-Aven in Brittany, joining the little artistic community there and befriending painters such as Maxime Maufra and Henry Moret. In 1893 he joined the Société des Artists Indépendants and exhibited six paintings at the group’s annual exhibition. In 1897 Loiseau entered into a contract with the Galerie Durand-Ruel, which agreed to buy most of his paintings, thereby allowing the artist a measure of financial freedom. For the remainder of his career, he was to travel tirelessly in Brittany, Normandy and the Ile-de-France, painting numerous landscapes along the Seine and elsewhere. His style remained distinctively his own; as Loiseau once noted of himself, ‘I only acknowledge one quality, that of being sincere. I work in my own little corner, as well as I

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Gustave Loiseau (1865 - 1935)

Artist's Biography

Gustave Loiseau was born 3 October 1865 in Paris. A Post-Impressionist painter, he is remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.

Brought up in Paris and Pontoise by parents who owned a butchers shop, Loiseau served an apprenticeship with a decorator who was a friend of the family. In 1887, when an inheritance from his grandmother allowed him to concentrate on painting, he enrolled at the École des arts décoratifs where he studied life drawing. However, a year later he left the school after an argument with his teacher.

While working as a decorator, Loiseau redecorated the apartment of the landscape painter Fernand Quignon (1854-1941). After he left the École des arts décoratifs, Quignon tutored him in painting. In 1890, he went to Pont-Aven in Brittany for the first time, fraternizing with the artists there, especially Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard. After experimenting with Pointillism, he adopted his own approach to Post-Impressionism, painting landscapes directly from nature. His technique,