The Impressionist group was first formed around 1870 in France by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frederic Bazille due to their shared discontent with academic teaching. So they began their own group also later joined by Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. They were given the name Impressionists after Monet’s painting Impression:Sunrise. It was the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, the set-up of the Third Republic of France, and the Siege of Paris. These events enormously impacted the lives of the artists just beginning in their movement. Monet, Degas and Renoir enlisted, and Bazille was killed in action at only 29. Meanwhile Monet and Pissarro escaped to England where they met Paul Derand-Ruel, the Parisian art dealer. After the War, as things returned to somewhat calm, so did the world of the Impressionists as they regularly met

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Felix Vallotton, Café Guerbois, Cezanne Sisley, Van Gogh, Developments Ideas, Louis Vauxcelles, Societe Anonyme, Impressionism Neo-Impressionism, Hebrew Stemming, Francisco Goya, van gogh, german expressionism, german artists, edvard munch, developments ideas, world war,