1. Albert Lebourg, birth name Albert-Marie Lebourg, called Albert-Charles Lebourg and Charles Albert Lebourg, was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School.
14 Facts About Albert Lebourg
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Albert Lebourg studied art with Gustave Morin at l'Academie de peinture et de dessins, Rouen.
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In 1876, Lebourg exhibited his works for the first time together with Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and other artists on the Boulevard Montmartre.
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Albert Lebourg was referred to be appointed as a drawing professor at the Societe des Beaux-Arts in Algiers after being noticed in Rouen by the art collector Laurent Laperlier.
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In 1873 Albert Lebourg married and remained in Algiers until the summer of 1877 when he resigned from his teaching position and returned to Paris with numerous paintings of the casbah, mosques and the Admiralty.
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Albert Lebourg remained occupied in all four seasons painting animated scenes of the Seine in and near Rouen and Paris.
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Albert Lebourg energetically painted in Auvergne, Normandy and Ile-de-France, finally settling in Puteaux where he remained from 1888 to 1895, availing himself to the surroundings of Paris, painting what he would regard as his best works.
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Albert Lebourg became a member of the Societe des Artistes Francais beginning in 1893.
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Albert Lebourg moved to the Netherlands in 1895, where he would stay two years.
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Albert Lebourg exhibited to great acclaim at the Mancini Gallery in Paris and won the silver medal at the Exposition Universelle.
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At the home of Impressionist art collector Francois Depeaux, Albert Lebourg had the opportunity to converse many times with Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, and Robert Antoine Pinchon.
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Albert Lebourg suffered a stroke in September 1920 that paralyzed the left side of his body.
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Albert Lebourg was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour on 27 June 1903, and breveted Officer of the Legion of Honour 22 April 1924.
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Albert Lebourg's works are exhibited at the Musee d'Orsay, Petit-Palais and Carnavalet in Paris, as well as museums in Bayonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Le Havre, Dunkerque, Lille, Strasbourg, Sceaux and above all Rouen at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.