# Gustave Moreau

> He painted myths and Bible stories the academies loved, then made them strange—women who looked like visions, colors that shimmered past the frame. By the 1890s Moreau had become the lodestar of Symbolism, the painter who turned worn-out legends into something persuasive and new.

*19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1826-04-06
- **Died:** 1898-04-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Gustave Moreau was born in Paris on 6 April 1826 and trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, forming a close bond with Théodore Chassériau in the early 1850s. Chassériau's death in 1856 shook him; he left for Italy the next year and returned in 1859 with hundreds of studies of old masters. His Oedipus and the Sphinx won a medal at the 1864 Salon and made his name, drawing a circle of devoted collectors through the 1860s, but after harsh reviews in 1869 he stopped exhibiting regularly and withdrew from the Salon for good after 1880. Decorated in 1883, he grew reclusive, refused invitations and professorships, and only took a teaching post at the Ecole in 1891 after a friend's death—where he proved a brilliant teacher to Matisse, Rouault, and others. He lived as a bachelor in the studio his parents built for him in 1852, produced over 15,000 works, and died of cancer in 1898, leaving the house and nearly everything in it to the state. It opened as the Musée Gustave Moreau in 1903.

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