Where did Paul Cezanne live?



Where did Paul Cézanne live most of his life?

During his formative period, from about 1858 to 1872, Cézanne alternated between living in Paris and visiting Aix. The early 1860s was a period of great vitality for Parisian literary and artistic activity.

Where did Cézanne grow up?

Aix-en-Provence





Childhood. Paul Cézanne was born in 1839 in the town of Aix-en-Provence in the South of France. His father was a wealthy lawyer and banker who strongly encouraged Paul to follow in his footsteps.

Where is Cézanne’s house?

Aix-en-Provence

Today, it’s in Aix-en-Provence and surrounding area that you can share Cezanne’s experience intensely, as you visit the streets, places and landscapes that marked the life, the outlook and the work of the father of modern painting…

Did Van Gogh know Cézanne?

Van Gogh mentioned Cezanne in at least 13 of his letters. The excerpts below were written to his brother Theo and artist friend Emile Bernard in the period when he was in Arles, in the same region as Aix-en-Provence where Cezanne also lived and painted.