Albert Lebourg

Lebourg was a pupil of Gustave Morin, director of the Municipal School of Painting and Drawing in Rouen.


Noticed by a collector in 1872, it offered him a position as an art teacher in Algeria, where he taught until 1877, with a return to Rouen in 1873 to marry. The art dealer in Paris Porter introduced him to new artistic circles.




Lebourg follow courses for two years in the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens.Having knowledge of D r Paulin, he went with him in Auvergne in 1884 and stayed in Pont-du-Château next year. In 1888, he settled in Puteaux. He made ​​two trips between 1895 and 1897 in Holland. He went in 1902 to St. Gingolph Switzerland. With a workshop rue de Poissy to Paris, where he remained until 1920 before returning to his home in Rouen where he fell ill. He stopped painting in 1925 and died in 1928 after a painful illness.

Lebourg twice participated in the Impressionist exhibitions in 1879 and 1880.Many Parisian art dealers expounded his works include Antonio Mancini in 1896, Bernheim 1899 and 1910, Rosenberg 1903 and 1906. Lebourg was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1903. Associate of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, he participated in almost all of these rooms from 1891 to 1914. The most important exhibition which was consecrated in 1918 took place in Paris at the Galerie Georges Petit.
Source : Tradition & Modernity Gallery

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