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Emile Bernard

Lille (1868) - Paris (1941)

Émile Bernard is best known as a Post-Impressionist painter, who maintained close relations to Van Gogh and Gauguin, and at a later time, to Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. Later Bernard returned to a more or less academic practice, with his own trinity — God, Wagner, Titian, and Tintoretto as an intermediate.

Less known is Bernard's literary work, comprising plays, poetry, and art critiques, as well as art historical statements that contain first hand information on the crucial period of modern art to which Bernard had contributed.

In 1891 he joined a group of Symbolist painters that included Odilon Redon and Ferdinand Hodler.

In 1893 he started travelling, to Egypt, Spain and Italy and after that his style became more eclectic.

He returned to Paris in 1904 and died there in 1941.