André Hébuterne

André Hébuterne (born September 3, 1894 in Meaux , † June 30, 1992 in Paris ) was a French painter .

Life

André Hébuterne was a son of the accountant Achille Casimir Hébuterne and his wife Eudoxie Anaïs Tellier, as well as the older brother of the painter Jeanne Hébuterne (1898–1920). In the mid-1910s, the von Meaux family moved to Paris, where he studied art history at the independent Académie Colarossi .

In the bohemian district of Montparnasse , he found a studio where he lived with his sister Jeanne in 1914. In 1917 she met the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), and the following year she became his partner and most important model.

To avoid the German bombs , he moved with his pregnant sister and Modigliani to Nice and Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1918 , where they stayed for over a year and met some friends and painted. On November 29, 1918, his niece Jeanne, called Giovanna, was born. During their stay in Nice and the surrounding area, they often visited Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Pablo Picasso , Giorgio de Chirico and André Derain . When his future brother-in-law died of tuberculous meningitis in 1920 , his sister, eight months pregnant, committed suicide .

André Hébuterne received all rights to his sister's works. Only after his death did his widow allow the public access to them. He himself had limited success as an artist and later worked as a publishing editor in Paris.