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Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet

Courbet, Gustave
Wipplinger, Hans-Peter
Güdel, Niklaus Manuel

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 3, 2026

ISBN10: 3753309664
ISBN13: 9783753309668
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 344
Language: English

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 to leading the Federation of Artists during the brief-lived Paris Commune, Courbet became as well known for his political involvement as for his socially committed style of painting. His portraits, landscapes and still lifes are quiet, contemplative and even mournful, and provide a stark contrast to the rapid political and industrial changes of his time. This exhibition catalog provides an extensive survey of Courbet's revolutionary realism, from his early self-portraits to his egalitarian The Stone Breakers and his controversial L'Origine du monde.

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