From a young age Cezanne was a friend of Emile Zola, and he frequently visited the novelist, until the moment that Zola published his novel ‘L’Oeuvre’, in which Cezanne recognized himself as the tortured painter who could not master his passions and talents. He broke his friendship with Zola immediately. This written portrait of the ‘artist’ in the novel is in strong contradiction to the work and life of the later Cezanne who developed an art which was very concentrated, conscious and well-balanced.Cezanne became an extremely important artist for the painters after him, such as French Cubism, Italian Futurism and the modern abstract painters in Germany, Munich: the ‘Blue Rider’. Until 1905 Cezanne continued to paint his characteristic landscapes in oil and in watercolor, a lot of them with his famous motif, the mountain hill ‘St Victoire’.Paul Cezanne was a famous artist of the first generation impressionist French painters like Monet and Renoir; he frequently painted landscapes ‘en plain air’ with the impressionist painter Pissarro who helped himn in discovering landscape painting. From then Cezanne gradually developed his personal style of painting in which ‘form’ became most important again (as opposed to the impressionist emphasis on broken ‘color’), together with the new structures he discovered in landscape and nature.