Alexandre Falguière

Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière known as Alexandre Falguière , born with Toulouse the September 7th 1831 and died in Paris the April 19th 1900, is a Artist-painter and a Sculpteur French of academic style. It is a honest artist with the serious talent, whose some beautiful fabrics are classified under the sign of realism.

Biography

Raise François Jouffroy, Falguière is prize winner - jointly with Louis-Leon Cugnot - first large Prix of Rome of sculpture in 1859 with a relief Mézence wounded, preserved by the intrepidity of his/her son Lausos .

In 1882, it is named professor with the École of the Art schools and is elected member of the Académie of the Art schools. Let us quote some famous pupils of Falguière: Gaston Schnegg, Antoine Bourdelle…

Works

Dancer , Cléo de Mérode, circa 1896, Plaster moulded on nature to be used as model, Museum of Victorious Orsay
with the cockfight , statue, bronzes, Paris, Musée of Orsay
Tarcisius, martyr Christian (1868), statue, marble, Paris, museum of Orsay
Jean-Baptiste of the Room (1875), statue, bronzes, Rouen
Asia (1878), statue, pig iron, Paris, square of the museum of Orsay: World Fair of Paris of 1878, one of the six sculptures carried out for the series the Six Continents
Honore de Balzac (1902) Bronze located at the crossing of the Street Balzac and the Which occurred of Friedland, place Georges Guillaumin, with Paris

External bonds

Works of Falguière
Alexandre Falguière in Artcyclopedia

Sources

Emmanuel Schwartz, Sculptures of the School of the Art schools of Paris. History, doctrines, catalog , 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools, Paris, 2003.

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