short biography

Edgar Degas (Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, b. 1834, Paris; d. 1917, Paris) was a painter and sculptor. In 1874 he and fellow artists organized exhibitions to break the monopoly of the Paris Salon, later known as Impressionist exhibitions. In 1886 he distanced himself more and more from the Impressionist group and developed an independent own painting.

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Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Ball State University Museum of Art Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Brooklyn Museum Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington Courtauld, London DIA Detroit Institute of Arts Dayton Art Institute Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge / UK . Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel Fondation de l´Hermitage, Lausanne Galleria Nazionale, Rome ° Getty, Los Angeles Hiroshima Museum of Art Honolulu Academy of Arts Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Joslyn Art Museum Kreeger Museum, Washington Kunsthalle Bremen Kunsthalle Mannheim Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunstmuseum Den Haag Kunstmuseum Solothurn Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Museum Gunzenhauser LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Landesmuseum Mainz MASI LAC & PALAZZO REALI Lugano MASP - Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York MUMA Le Havre Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu . Mildura Arts Centre Milwaukee Art Museum Minneapolis Institute of Arts Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson Musee Fabre, Montpellier ° Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Museo Soumaya, Mexico City Museu da Chácara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (closed for renovation) Museum Langmatt, Baden Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig Museum der Moderne Salzburg / Rupertinum Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museumsinsel Berlin Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne ° Musée Jenisch, Vevey Musée Maillol Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen Musée d´Orsay, Paris Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas National Gallery of Art, Washington ° National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Neue Pinakothek, München (geschlossen) New Art Gallery Walsall New Orleans Museum of Art Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Petit Palais, Genf Phillips Collection, Washington Princeton University Art Museum Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow RISD Museum, Providence Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Winterthur San Diego Museum of Art Smart Museum, Chicago Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Staatliche Museen zu Berlin State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS Städel Museum, Frankfurt THE CLARK Williamstown Tacoma Art Museum Tate Collection Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Hugh Lane, Dublin The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed) The Whitworth, Manchester Vancouver Art Gallery Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (VMFA) Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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