Édouard Delaporte


Édouard Delaporte was a French painter, architect, and sculptor.

Biography

Delaporte was born in Paris in 1909. In 1929, at age 20, he began painting. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and in 1937 he became an architect certified by the government. In 1939 he was drafted to serve in World War II. After the war, in 1946, Delaporte left France and moved to Rabat, Morocco. For ten years he built many public buildings, villas, and private homes. In 1956, when Morocco gained independence, he returned to France and settled in Antibes. In 1978 he moved to Saint-Jeannet, a small town in the interior of Nice, where he devoted himself to painting. He died on 6 July 1983 at his home, Place sur le Four.

Major exhibitions