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| Albert Lebourg |
| 1849-1928 |
| European Artist |
| Albert Lebourg was born in Montfort-sur-Risle, France. Lebourg had an early interest in architecture but became increasingly interested in art and met the landscape painter Victor Delamarre (1811-1868) who advised and taught him. Giving up architecture altogether, Lebourg decided to attend the École Municipale de Peinture et de Dessin in Rouen under Gustave Morin. In 1871, he met the collector Laperlier through whom he obtained the post of professor of drawing at the Société des Beaux-Arts in Algiers. He remained there from 1872 to 1877.He also experimented with depicting a single site in a variety of different lights, in a manner similar to the late works of Claude Monet. In 1877, Returning to Paris he studied at the atelier of Jean-Paul Laurens. It was at this point that he became aware of Impressionism. During this period Lebourg became friendly with Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. Between 1884 and 1886, Lebourg spent most of his time in the Auvergne region, producing Impressionist works. After living and working in numerous places in northern France, Lebourg traveled in the Netherlands (1895–18977) and in 1900, he spent a short period in Britain, which confirmed his love of Joseph Mallord William Turner, John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. He continued working in a luminous Impressionist style with landscapes until 1921 when he was paralyzed by a stroke. |
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