Gustave Courbet Biography

Gustave Courbet biography

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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.