Fernand Hamar

Fernand Hamar studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and National Institute of Deaf Youth of Paris. Training under Louis-Ernest Barrias, Pierre-Jules Cavelier and Paul-François Choppin is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Fernand Hamar • Birth Name — Fernand Joseph Job Hamar • Born — 15 July 1869 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 10 March 1943 • Place of death — Paris, France • Field — Sculpture

Fernand Hamar was the eldest of Alexis Hamar and Marie Guillot. He had a sister, Marguerite and a little brother, Maurice. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, between the Battle of Orleans (1870) and the Battle of Le Mans, the Prussian army pushed the Army of the Loire around Le Temple. The noise of the cannons caused the deafness of Fernand Hamar, according to his family. Around his tenth birthday, he entered the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris. In the Parisian school for the deaf, Hamar learned sculpture. He enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs on 2 October 1886, where he studied for four years. On 4 March 1890 he enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and on 9 March 1890 he became a student of Jules Cavelier at his request, then of Louis-Ernest Barrias and then of Paul-François Choppin, himself deaf. He competed unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français. On 19 December 1916 Fernand Hamar married Paule Monsaingeon (1880–1970) who gave him two children: Manon and Patrice.

In 1937, Fernand Hamar created, with other former students, the association of the Amicale des Anciens Pupils of the National Institution of the Deaf-Mute of Paris. He died on 10 March 1943 and was buried in Vendôme.

• Monument au maréchal de Rochambeau, 1901. • Allégorie américaine, 1902. • Le Triomphe de la Vérité, 1905. • Diane chasseresse, 1908. • La Fortune et le Travail, 1909. • Galanterie, 1914. • L’Ombre du souvenir, 1925. • Médaillon de 3 mètres de diamètre, 1937.

The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1869 at Vendôme. Institutional cataloguing adds that fernand Hamar died in 1943 at 14th arrondissement of Paris.

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. The record continues: fernand Hamar is recorded with the occupation sculptor. It is also recorded that fernand Hamar is recorded as a citizen of France. The register further records that fernand Hamar is recorded with the gender male. Born on 15 July 1869. Hamar died on 10 March 1943.