Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848. Taken with Impressionism, he started painting while still pursuing his profession as a bank clerk. The artist was also shaped by the influenced of Van Gogh and Pissaro. In 1891, Gauguin moved to Tahiti and later to Dominique, where he died in 1903. This is where the artist found his individual style large paintings with sharp contours in lively and strong colors. More and more Gauguin was inspired by the beauty and the magic of the South Pacific and the impressive characters among the natives. His paintings are expressively exotic and Gauguin can justifiably be called the precursor of Expressionism and Fauvism.