Claude Monet

1840
birth in Paris.
He grows up in Le Havre 1858
Meets Boudin, who inspires him to paint plein air.
1859
Acquaintance with Pissarro at the "Académie Suisse" in Paris.
1860
Studied painting at the free painting school Académie Suisse in Paris against his father's wishes
1867
Monet's partner Camille Doncieux gives birth to a son
1870
Claude and Camille marry
1878
Monet's second son Michel Monet is born
1879
Camille dies of abdominal cancer at the age of  32
1883
Claude Monet rents a house with a garden in Giverny with Alice Hoschedé
1890
Buys the house in Giverny and begins work on the later famous garden.
1892
Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé marry
1916
  He receives a government commission for the water lily cycle
1926
Claude Monet dies on
5 December at Giverny

impressionism
Claude Monet is one of the
key figures of the
impressionism. His land-
stock picture "Impression,
soleil levant" (1872).
namesake for the
Art movement that in the
second half of the 19th
century came up. In the foreground there is
color and the senses
perception of the artist.
It is mainly painted outdoors in natural light conditions. The motifs are mostly impressions of nature.