[ePub] Through the Healing Glass: Shaping the Modern Body through Glass Architecture; 1925-35 (Routledge Research in Architecture) by John Stanislav Sadar at Arts-Photography

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Armand Guillaumin (1841 ndash;1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. Noted for their intense colours; Guillamins paintings are represented in major museums around the world. He is best remembered for his landscapes of Paris; the Creuse deacute;partement; and the area around Les Adrets-de-lEsteacute;rel near the Mediterranean coast in the Provence-Alpes-Cocirc;te dAzur region of France. Guillamin was called the leader of the Eacute;cole de Crozant; a diverse group of painters who came to depict the landscape in the region of the Creuse around the village of Crozant. Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris; he worked at his uncles lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons. He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Acadeacute;mie Suisse in 1861. There; he met Paul Ceacute;zanne and Camille Pissarro with whom he maintained lifelong friendships. While he never achieved the stature of these two; his influence on their work was significant. Ceacute;zanne attempted his first etching based on Guillaumin paintings of barges on the River Seine.Guillaumin exhibited at the Salon des Refuseacute;s in 1863. He participated in six of the eight Impressionist exhibitions: 1874; 1877; 1880; 1881; 1882 and 1886. In 1886 he became a friend of Vincent van Gogh whose brother; Theo sold some of his works. He was finally able to quit his government job and concentrate on painting full-time in 1891; when he won 100;000 francs in the state lottery. Armand Guillaumin died in 1927 in Orly; Val-de-Marne just south of Paris.