GUSTAVE COURBET
ABOUT
Gustave Courbet, born June 10, 1819 in Ornans and died December 31, 1877 in La Tour-de-Peilz (Switzerland), is a French painter, sculptor and leader of the realism art movement. Courbet as created a huge oeuvre of paintings - more than a
thousand works - Courbet is one of the most powerful and complex
artists of the nineteenth century.
PALAVAS
LE BORD DE MER
"I believe that painting in its essence is a concrete art and can only exist in the representation of the real and existing things."
GUSTAVE COURBET
1861
