André HAMBOURG
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André HAMBOURG
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Born in Paris on May 4 1909,
André Hambourg attended the National School of Decorative Arts and the National School of Fine Arts.
Painter, illustrator, lithographer, engraver, and ceramist, he exhibited in Paris in 1928 at the Taureau Gallery and in 1930 at the Bénézit Gallery. Winner of the Abd El Tif villa prize, he stayed in Algiers from 1933 to 1935 and visited southern Algeria.
In 1939, he was mobilised in Morocco and then demobilised. In 1943, he was posted to Algiers and contributed to the ’Combattant 43’ newspaper.
This painter sailed the seven seas in the Navy and had, in addition to Paris, two home ports: Honfleur and Trouville, and Provence, where he had a house built on the very ground where Cézanne painted the Sainte-Victoire mountain which overlooks the plain of Aix-en-Provence.
His paintings exude joie de vivre and the numerous subjects are, as the artist himself was, always in motion.
His Trouville Deauville beach paintings made him famous in the wake of Eugène Boudin, but the paintings of his youth, exhibited just after his death at the Greniers à Sel in Honfleur, bear witness to the power and talent of the artist, as does his retrospective at the Musée de la Marine in late 2006.
André Hambourg became interested in the art of books and engraving very early on: as early as 1932, he illustrated his first book with this technique.
He regularly practised lithography either to illustrate books or for independent plates.
André Hambourg died on December 4, 1999. Commander of the Legion of Honor and holder of a Second World War cross, he is the author of ‘Berchtesgaden Party’ published by the Atelier G. Duval in 1947.
