Painter Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Living place: Paris

Birthday: 7-6-1848

Global rank: #37901

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Who is Painter Paul Gauguin?
Post-Impressionist artist who depicts village life in Tahiti in colorful works such as "Spirit of the Dead Watching." His work became popular after his death and influenced celebrity like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.
He suffered from syphilis and alcoholism and died in French Polynesia at the age of 54 from a morphine overdose.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He grew up in Peru and France and joined a French merchant navy as a pilot's assistant at the age of 17. He later worked as a stockbroker at the Paris Bourse and was a very successful businessman for over a decade.

Family life info

He married a Danish woman named Mette-Sophie Gad, with whom he had five children. His passion for art eventually consumed him, and his wife kicked him out. He returned to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life battling depression.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Painter Paul Gauguin?
He was a friend and contemporary artist of the famous co-artist Vincent van Gogh.

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When was Painter Paul Gauguin born?
Paul Gauguin was born in 7-6-1848, death year is , at the age of 176.
Where is Painter Paul Gauguin's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, of France. is a Painter, whose Zodiac is Gemini, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Paul Gauguin's global rank is 37901 and whose rank is 98 in list of famous Painter.
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Events in 1848 and 7-6

Birthday Paul Gauguin (7-6) in history

  • Day 7-6 year 1494: Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, a treaty dividing the "New World" between the two countries.
  • Day 7-6 year 1654: "Sun King" Louis XIV ascended the throne of France.
  • Day 7-6 year 1776: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing the Declaration of Independence.
  • Day 7-6 year 1892: Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
  • Day 7-6 year 1929: Vatican City became a sovereign state.
  • Day 7-6 year 1948: President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
  • Day 7-6 year 1967: Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.
  • Day 7-6 year 2003: Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.
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