short biography

Auguste Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born 1841 in Limoges/France, died 1919 in Cagnes-sur-mer/France) was an Impressionist painter, who developed his own free style. He was a friend of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille and Édouard Manet. They often painted together primarily outdoors, in the woods. He was the father of the Film Director Jean Renoir.

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Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki Ball State University Museum of Art Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Belvedere, Wien Columbus Museum of Art ° Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence DePaul University Museum, Chicago EKEBERGPARKEN Oslo Falmouth Art Gallery Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge / UK . Flint Institute of Arts Frye Art Museum, Seattle Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin Getty, Los Angeles Haifa Museum of Art Harvard Art Museums — Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, Arthur M. Sackler, Carpenter ° Hiroshima Museum of Art ICA Richmond Indianapolis Museum of Art Jeu de Paume, Paris Joslyn Art Museum Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura Kreeger Museum, Washington Kunst Museum Winterthur Kunsthalle Bremen Kunsthalle Göppingen Kunsthalle Mannheim Kunstmuseum Ahlen Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunstmuseum Solothurn MASI LAC & PALAZZO REALI Lugano MASP - Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo MUMA Le Havre Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musee Fabre, Montpellier ° Museo Botero, Bogota Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Museo Soumaya, Mexico City Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum Langmatt, Baden Museum of Fine Arts Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg / Florida Museumsinsel Berlin Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne ° Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Musée Unterlinden, Colmar Musée de l´Orangerie, Paris Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux Musée d´Orsay, Paris National Art Gallery, Sofia ° National Art Museum of Fine Arts, Chisinau National Gallery Prague National Gallery of Art, Washington ° National Gallery, London National Museum Cardiff Nationalmuseum Stockholm Neue Pinakothek, München (geschlossen) New Orleans Museum of Art Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Oklahoma City Museum of Art Petit Palais, Genf Petit Palais, Paris Philadelphia Museum of Art Phillips Collection, Washington Picasso Museum - Luzern Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow RISD Museum, Providence Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Winterthur Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Staatsgalerie Stuttgart State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS Städel Museum, Frankfurt THE CLARK Williamstown Tacoma Art Museum Tate Collection Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art ° The Hugh Lane, Dublin The Hunt Museum, Limerick The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed) Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln Wright Museum of Art, Beloit Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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