Rene Quillivic

Rene Quillivic (1879-1969) is a sculptor French.

Biography

He is resulting from a modest family of Plouhinec (Finistere) where he is born the May 13rd 1879.

Initially craftsman-carpenter, it decides to devote himself to the sculpture and share to be formed with the National school of the Art schools of Paris in the workshop of Antonin Mercier. Initially, it exposes in several living rooms: Living room of the Art schools, Living room of Independent, Living room of the French Artists. In 1907, it gains the gold medal of the Living room of the Art schools with " the group of the Breton bell ringers ". The following year, another of its works, " the Embroidering-machine of Pont-l'Abbé " , allows him to obtain purses to travel in North Africa like in Italy. He dies in Paris the April 8th 1969.

Works

Its inspiration is resulting mainly from its Brittany of origin where it obtains many orders of statues (e.g.: group bell ringers of Biniou in the center of Plozévet). The post-war period is a chance to be able to exert its art in the clothes industry of many war memorials of which some of pacifist inspirations, mainly in its department of Finistere (Carhaix, Coray, Fouesnant, Plouhinec, Plouyé, Plozévet, Bridge-Cross, Saint-Pol.-of-Leon, Loudéac).

It is his/her own mother, carrying the cap of the Cape, which appears, carved in the granite, supported on the stele of the war memorial of its native commune. The bronze bust of his/her mother is also exposed not far from there, with the pinion of its native house. It often was used to him as model.

When with the statue of the bigoudenne which marks the border between the Pays Bigouden and the Cape Sizun and which was inaugurated in 1961, its model, according to the local tradition, would have been the cousin of writer P-J Hélias, employed of the family of Georges and Albert the Lease, former deputies mayors of Plozévet.

Its engraved work takes as a starting point the reasons bigoudens and Celtic, it used the Breton granites, generally the kersantite. Without belonging to the movement of the Seiz Breur, it renews the traditional topics, in particular when it works, at the request of Jules Verlingue, for the Faïence laughs H.B. Henriot with Quimper.

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