Pont-Aven School

Pont-Aven School is a group of French painters named after the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany in France.

Two French unsightly villages on the Breton coast were known in the art after impressionism . Pont-Aven and Le Pouldu were unexpected whereabouts of Paul Gauguin ,Emile Bernard , Paul Sérusier and numerous other painters, who Pont School Aven formed. They called themselves the Nabis (prophets).

Painting style
Les Nabis painters held a post-impressionist style after which they gave up the shape fading impressionism in a simplifying view with replacing realistic picture elements by a private individual color interpretation, where the primacy of the Idea was given priority over the natural reality.

Delineated unmixed color fields adjacent signed the Cloisonnisme . Some were tempted by the wavy lines of the French Art Nouveau .

Paul Gauguin was a first stay at Pont-Aven in 1886, at the Auberge Gloanec. After his brief stay in Martinique, he came back in 1888. On October 2, 1889, however, he moved to nearby Le Pouldu, together with the Dutchman Jacob Meyer de Haan. On April 4, 1891, he left Le Pouldu but again, this time for his first stay in Tahiti . The Pont-Aven School immediately lost its standard-bearer, although Paul Sérusier and Charles Filiger Brittany still remained faithful.

Other important Pont-Aven artists were:

Charles Laval , Henry Moret , Ernest de Chamaillard , Louis Anquetin , Meijer de Haan , Charles Filiger , Maurice Denis , Armand Seguin , Władysław Ślewiński , Roderic O'Conor , Robert Bevan , Georges Lacombe ,Jan Verkade , Gustave Loiseau , Mogens Ballin , Émile Jourdan and Cuno Amiet .