Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in France. He began as an apprentice to a porcelain painter, and went on to help launch the artistic movement known as Impressionism. He and his friends Pissarro, Monet, Cézanne and Degas, decided to show their works on their own in Paris in 1874, and that became known as the first Impressionist exhibition.
A younger generation of artists that included Picasso and Matisse often referred to Renoir’s influence on early 20th Century art. He died in 1919, but lived long enough to see one of his paintings purchased by the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The trailer above is for a recent film about his life and work.
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