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Hambourg
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Born in 1909 in Paris, Andre Hambourg attended the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs where he studied sculpture, and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Lucien Simon from 1926 -1930. During the 1930s, he also worked in several artists’ studios in Montparnasse, where he was exposed to modernist movements and the work of their artists.
Hambourg had his first one man show at the age of nineteen with...
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Born in 1909 in Paris, Andre Hambourg attended the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs where he studied sculpture, and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Lucien Simon from 1926 -1930. During the 1930s, he also worked in several artists’ studios in Montparnasse, where he was exposed to modernist movements and the work of their artists.
Hambourg had his first one man show at the age of nineteen with Henri Bénézit in 1928, followed by others in 1930 and 1931. His style of painting underwent a change in 1933, when he was awarded the Prix de la Villa Abd-el-Tif and, as a result, travelled to North Africa for the first time. The intensity of light and the brilliance of colour contrasted by the poverty and bleakness there impacted him deeply, and he went on to live and paint in Algiers and Morocco for nearly a decade.
From 1952, Hambourg was appointed the official painter of the French Navy, and from 1963, he undertook many international voyages, some aboard navy vessels.
Hambourg painted in oil paints, pastels and watercolours, and also executed several drawings. In addition, he mastered the techniques of lithography, engraving and ceramics, and his illustrations for deluxe editions of books are highly acclaimed. The artist also created several large scale murals, like the one for Algerian Pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale of Paris, for which he was appointed a Laureate. In 1972, he created another mural for the Audience Chamber of the new European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Hambourg received the Cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1960, and in 1961, he was honoured with the Grande Medaille de Vermeil of the City of Paris in recognition of his successes in the field of fine arts. A year later, Trouville-sur-Mer in France honoured Hambourg with the first major retrospective exhibition of his work, covering the years from 1927 to 1964. Today, his paintings hang in more than fifty museums in France and other countries including the Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville.
Hambourg passed away in 1999.
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Born
1909
Died
1999
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