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Armand Jamar (1870, Liège, Belgium – 1946, Sint Gilles, near Brussels) was a painter of portraits, landscapes, seaviews and interiors in impressionistic style. After studying law, he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège in 1894 and received there his artistic education among others from Evariste Carpentier. His first exhibition took place in Liège in 1900. In 1904, he settled in Schaarbeek (Belgium) in the former studio of Constantin Meunier. He participated several times in expositions at the Salon des Artiste Français (Grand Palais, Paris), where he was awarded once a Golden Medal. Paintings by him were also shown at the Salons of Brussels (1910), Antwerp and Ghent. In 1921, he was given a special exhibition at the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in Brussels. He lived and worked in Belgium, France, Holland, Spain, Italy, Africa and the United States. At the beginning of his artistic career he was influenced by Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind. In those years he painted in an impressionistic style with vivid colours. Later he went over to a colourful Expressionism. Since he met Louis de Winter, art lover and Maecenas, he became interested in literary and metaphysical subjects. Many paintings by Jamar are in private collections, but a number of them are displayed in museums in Belgium: in Antwerp, Brussels, Charleroi, Liège, and in France: Lille and Rouen. Special exhibitions were organized in1974 in het Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (Belgium); in 1975 in Musée d'Art Wallon, Liège; in 1988 in the Gemeentehuis (Town Hall) at Schaarbeek.
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