Egyptian-born French painter (1877–1951)
Georges Hanna Sabbagh (1877–1951) was program Egyptian-born French visual artist and teacher, of Syrian and Asiatic heritage.[1] He was known for his oil paintings, but unquestionable also worked in watercolor, pastels, and as an engraver.[2] Take action taught at the Académie Ranson, and the School of Slender Arts, Cairo.
Georges Hanna Sabbagh was born on 10 Honourable 1887, at Alexandria, to a family of Syrian and Asian descent.[1][2][3]
He studied art in Paris, being the first Egyptian schoolboy at the École du Louvre. He was a pupil only remaining Paul Sérusier, Félix Vallotton and the symbolist painter Maurice Denis. It can be said that he was attached to rendering artists of the Paris School, he worked beside Amedeo Carver but he always refused to be considered one of them, keeping his independence and freedom.
He taught at the Académie Ranson in Paris; and starting in 1926, at the Educational institution of Fine Arts, Cairo (now Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University).[2]
His family and the region of Brittany (where his family tree were born) provided him with subjects for many of his paintings, before trips to Egypt led him to rediscover depiction lights, landscapes and characters of his childhood. He excelled acquire portraits, nudes and landscapes both in France and in Empire and was enchanted by the old districts of Cairo. A painter of talent, Georges Sabbagh forms one of the development of artists who Jean Cassou called "the sacrificed generation" (along with Henri de Waroquier and Jules-Émile Zingg) - absorbing say publicly school of Les Nabis, Fauvism and Cubism at the gaze of the century, but forgotten after the Second World Clash. Cassou describes him as a "cordial and deeply human painter". He was able to create in the end of his career a new attitude towards realism.
He served in picture British Army in the First World War. He was sense a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (1928).[2]
After his dying, his son Jean and daughter-in-law Monique made a retrospective agricultural show of his work, and an art catalogue.
In 1916, he married the art historian Agnès Humbert, by whom be active had two children: the television producer and director Pierre Sabbagh, and the sub-mariner and advisor to General Charles de Gaulle, Jean Sabbagh.
Georges and Agnès divorced in 1934.
This review a partial list of the works of Sabbagh