CLAUDE EMILE SCHUFFENECKER
French 1851-1934

Biography


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Claude Emile Schuffenecker was until recent years best known for his close relationship to many of the best known impressionists and post impressionists including Gauguin, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Bernard and others. 

 As a young man he worked in a stock exchange where he met stock broker Paul Gauguin. Gauguin and Schuffenecker shared an interest in paintings, and mutual support for each other’s work led them to abandon their jobs in the securities market to become full time artists. Schuffenecker’s initial training was under the French academic painters Carolus-Duran and Baudry. After he quit work in the stock exchange, Schuffenecker fell under the influence of the impressionists, in particular that of Claude Monet. By the mid 1890’s his work had begun to shift focus reflecting his involvement with the theosophical movement.