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Biography of Andre Hambourg
Having studied at the Ecole
Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs and the Ecole Nationale
des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Lucien Simon, Parisien born
Andre Hambourg, known for his luminous landscapes and seascapes,
became a dedicated painter beginning 1927. During the 1930s, he
worked in studios in Montparnasse where he had much exposure to
modernist movements and its artists. During World War II, he
served as a journalist for France and also did much painting
from his extensive travels in that capacity, especially to
Morocco and Algiers. Towards the end of the war, he fought for
the liberation of France.
In 1951, his distinguished reputation as "the grand gentleman of
French Post-Impressionism" (Christina) was underscored with his
receipt of the Cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
In 1961, he was honored with the Grande Medaille de Vermeil of
the City of Paris, a circular medal with an engraving of the
city given as recognition of success in fine art.
Hambourg, who also did illustration, worked in the mediums of
oils, pastels, watercolors, drawings, lithography, engraving,
fresco and ceramics.
Museum collections in Paris with work by Andre Hambourg include
the Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Musée d'Art Moderne de
la Ville. His painting is also in the Eugene Boudin Museum in
Honfleur. Hambourg was married to the daughter of Boudin
(1824-1898), famous French marine painter.
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