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- NAME: Gustave Courbet
- OCCUPATION: Painter
- BIRTH DATE: June 10, 1819
- DEATH DATE: December 31, 1877
- EDUCATION: Collège Royal, College of Fine Arts at Besançon
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Ornans, France
- PLACE OF DEATH: La Tours-de-Peilz, Switzerland
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French painter Gustave Courbet went against mid-nineteenth century Romanticism and led the Realism movement towards the beauty of everyday life.
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French painter Gustave Courbet went against mid-nineteenth century Romanticism and led the Realism movement towards the beauty of everyday life. Courbet had significant support from his father to become a painter, inspiring him to lead a new movement of painting focusing on rural activities, as seen in The Stone-Breakers and Burial at Ornans.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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