Joaquín Clausell

Who was Joaquín Clausell?

Joaquín Clausell was a Mexican impressionist painter.

He was born in Campeche, studied law, and later became a journalist. He was opposed to Porfirio Díaz's regime and persecuted by the authorities; he left Mexico and went to New York City and then moved to Paris, where he met Émile Zola and the work of painters such as Claude Monet. Deeply influenced by them, as well as by older French painters such as Gustave Courbet, he returned to Mexico to pursue a career in painting. He is considered the first painter to introduce Impressionism in Mexico.

1. Source Data : Extracts from French translation of "Courants artistiques mexicains," circa 1900. Agnès Lauvinerie / Eduardo Leal de la Gala