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French sculptor
Philippe Grass (6 May 1801 – 9 April 1876) was a French sculptor.
Career
Born in
Wolxheim,
Alsace, Grass was a pupil of
Landolin Ohmacht and Baron
François Joseph Bosio. From 1820 to 1823, he studied at the
École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. After his return to Alsace, he was appointed sculptor of the
Fondation de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg. In 1865, he became a knight of the
Legion of Honour. He made the portrait of his friend
Émile Souvestre on his tomb on the
Père Lachaise Cemetery.
He died in
Strasbourg.
Selected works
- Statue du général
Jean-Baptiste Kléber, bronze, 1840
- Statue du préfet
Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, 1845, in Strasbourg
- Jugement dernier, on the facade of the cathedral of Strasbourg
- Icare déployant ses ailes, 1831
- Suzanne au bain, 1834
- Jeune Paysanne, 1839
References
External links
-
Philippe Grass in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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