Alfred Janniot
Alfred Auguste Janniot or more simply Alfred Janniot (born in 1889 with Paris, on the Hillock Montmartre - died in 1969) was a Sculpteur French “official” of the the Thirties. Raise École of the Art schools, it belonged to the generation of the artists of fire. Returned from the Great War, it obtained in 1919 the First Price of Rome which it divided with the scuptor Raymond Delamarre.
Janniot is the author of a considerable monumental work. Friend of Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, it took part in the Exposition of decorative arts of 1925, carried out the large stone fresco on the frontage of the Musée of the colonies, built at the time of the colonial Exposition of 1931 and decorated with two large Bas-relief S the back of the Palais of Tokyo builds in 1937. Its work is also present at New York and Nice, where it carried out with the architect Roger Seassal large the War memorial the of style art déco on the Cornice. He was professor at the School of the Art schools.
The October 31st 1938, Alfred Janniot is high with the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor.
A Monographie was devoted to him by the defense association of its work. ----
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