Edouard VuillardFrench, 1868–1940Café Wepler
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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About the painting
The Wepler, a large brasserie restaurant on Place Clichy in the Montmartre district of Paris, is composed of several rooms on different levels. Once frequented by bohemian artists like Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani, the Wepler is still in business today.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
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- 1950.90
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Meanwhile, in the life of Edouard Vuillard
The whole life1886–1927 · Workplace
Paris
1894–1908
The Dreyfus Affair divides the Nabis
The Dreyfus Affair split French society and deepened the rift among the Nabis: Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard supported Dreyfus, while Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier sided with the army.
November 1908
Solo exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
His second large personal exhibition presents many of his new landscapes; one anti-modernist critic praises him for his protest against systematic deformations.
1912
Declines the Légion d’honneur
Vuillard, Bonnard and Roussel are nominated for the Légion d’honneur, but all three refuse it; Vuillard tells a journalist that he seeks no reward for his efforts other than the esteem of people of taste.
May 1912
Commission for the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
He receives an important commission for seven panels and three overdoor paintings for the new Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, including one of Sacha Guitry in his box and another of the comic playwright Georges Feydeau.
1914
Mobilised at the outbreak of the First World War
After the outbreak of war in August 1914 he is briefly mobilised as a highway guard, soon released from duty, and returns to painting.
