Oil On Canvas, Landscape With River By André Lemaitre

LEMAÎTRE André Born in 1909 in Falaise (Calvados). 1995 
20th century.
French.

Painter of figures, nudes, various subjects. His vision of reality, frank and synthetic, his direct and constructed technique, place him well within the Paris School of the interwar period.

He had a happy early childhood with his parents who had a hairdressing salon at the foot of the Guibray church; an old Falais family which, he said with a smile, “could only go back to the Vikings!” ". In 1914, at the first cannon shot, his father, Henri, was mobilized. In 1916, he fell in Verdun on the field of honor...

The young André Raymond Henri Prudent Lemaitre became an orphan, a ward of the Nation.
His mother remarried, life continued...differently...
André Lemaitre was admitted to the École Normale and he became a schoolmaster in Billy: a charming little village in the Caen plain. “A paradise,” he wrote, “nature in all its glory, in all its strength, in all its poetry…”
Married, children, a life shared between family, school and especially painting . In fact, he never spent a day, from his early youth until his death, without painting or drawing.

He exhibits everywhere in France and receives prizes.