Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zeppelins passing thunderously at night above his family's apartment in Bremerhaven, and a fluency only in his native tongue. It was 1917, and the U.S. had interned his father Adolf, an engineer for the North German Lloyd line; Engineer Schriever sent for his wife and sons Bernard and Gerhard, and they soon moved to the German-American community of New Braunfels, Texas. A few days before Ben's eighth birthday, his father was killed in an industrial accident in San Antonio. The boy shouldered his new responsibilities as male head of the family with what would become...
Through half a century Paul Gauguin has become increasingly famous as a painter of genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second-rate symbolist. But back in the 1880s it was Bernard, at 20, just half Gauguin's age, who led the older man beyond impressionism and guided him toward the style that now defines him. Bernard was painting like Gauguin before Gauguin himself...
Evidence of the origin of Gauguin's style was on exhibition last week in Manhattan's new Hirschl & Adler Galleries, the first time Bernard has ever had a one-man show in the U.S. With 31 paintings and some 20 watercolors and drawings of his Pont-Aven period (1886-93), it is also the biggest show he has ever had anywhere...
...Unknown Named Van Gogh. Bernard's role was never fully appreciated until Art Historian John Rewald told the story last autumn in his authoritative Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin. In the late 1880s Gauguin was painting in the Breton village of Pont-Aven along impressionist lines. Bernard was a precocious, rebellious, perceptive intellectual. He used to go on painting jaunts outside Paris with another unknown named Vincent van Gogh, who thought well of Bernard's work. Van Gogh urged Bernard to see Gauguin, who had once rebuffed him, and the young painter went to Pont-Aven...
Though not nearly so talented as Gauguin, Bernard was much more articulate. Young Bernard's theories fired the older painter's imagination, prodded him to formulate his own ideas, and drove him to experiment on canvas. The two friends painted together at Pont-Aven, feverishly discussed their daily discoveries. That summer Gauguin made the major stylistic break of his life, began painting in the style that was to make him famous...