Haitian artist claude dambreville biography
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Born in , and being an integral part of the initial wave of painters who gained fame beyond Haiti's shores, Dambreville tends to depict market women, and.Claude Dambreville
Haitian writer and painter (1934–2021)
Claude Dambreville (17 December 1934 – 15 March 2021) was a Haitian writer and painter. He won the annual literary Henri Deschamps award for his novel, Un gout de Fiel.[1]
Biography
Claude Dambreville was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on 17 December 1934.
From a very young age he began writing and drawing. His first job was running a local radio station, and in his spare time he would submit humorous articles and hand-drawn comics to a weekly Haitian newspaper.
Claude Dambreville was born in Port-au-Prince on December 17, , and died on March 15, He studied accounting and worked for some months as a trainee.
In 1968, he enrolled at the Centre d'Arte[2] in Port-au-Prince and began taking art classes.[3] Around the same time, he took correspondence courses from the ABC school of Paris, and then enrolled at L'Atelier, a Haitian school owned by the artist Nehemy Jean.
During his time in school he began successfully working full time as an artist. While studying at L'Atelier in 1973, he met and married the daughter of one of his teacher