Andre Pierre was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1914.  He is said to be the artistic and spiritual heir of Hector Hyppolite (1894 - 1948). After deciding to devote his life to *vodoun, Pierre became a houngan (vodoun priest) and a religious painter. Seldon Rodman, said of Pierre in his book 'Where Art Is Joy: Haitian Art - The First Forty Years' "Gerard Valcin and Wilmino Domond, next to Andre Pierre himself, were the dominant figures of the second generation."