Ernest Offal

Biography

Louis Ernest Offal or Ernest Nivet was a sculptor French born with Levroux (Indre) in 1871 and dead the February 5th 1948 in its residence of Chateauroux.

Artist of the Berry, it is one of his best representatives and one of its glories, its work is marked by the Paysan nery, its works are inhabited by the humble and pious simplicity of its inhabitants, near to a idealization which one finds in the novels of Georges Sand.

Works

War memorial of 1870 with Buzançais known as Whining the with its Berrichonne in foot, crying of pain, the head hidden in its arm supported over a stele and holding in the other hand a funeral wreath and inaugiré on October 28th, 1900.

The poem Berrichonne , in patois berrichon, is the literary transcription, by the poet Gabriel Nigond (1877-1937).

War memorial 1914-1918 of Châtre inaugurated in 1923 known as Berrichonne , with the foot of a lantern of deaths, a country-woman looks at the ground, the hands crossed, in an attitude of prayer and meditation, in front of the skin of his/her dead child of which there remains only the helmet and a hood according to leprocédé metonymic of the part for the whole. In this occurrence, the soldier is eluded by Nivet and summary with ridiculous attributes.
War memorial 1914-1918 of Hattonchâtel representing a Lorraine country-woman alone in front of a house of the village left in ruin.
War memorial of Issoudun.
the Knitting machine of 1898.
Bricolin of 1899.
Ravaudeuses berrichonnes of 1901
the Reaper of 1903.
the Shepherd upright of 1904
the Ropemaking machine of 1907.
the Harvester OF 1908.
Woman bending of 1910.
Shepherd laid down in 1930, monumental version out of stone of its shepherd laid down on the belly of 1906 and offered to the town of Levroux by Master Bubble, transferred on the place from the Town hall in 1994, close to collegial the Saint-Sylvain.

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