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Gustave Courbet
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Meet the realist rebel of 19th-century French art and politics—a self-confident socialist who insisted upon both artistic and political autonomy
Published with Folkwang Museum, Essen/Leopold Museum, Vienna.
“I am the proudest and most arrogant man in France,” boasted Gustave Courbet (1819–77) in an 1853 letter to a friend. His fellow artists, salon jurists, critics and the general population would have likely agreed. From setting up his own “Pavilion of Realism” at the Exposition Universelle ...