Joseph-Hugues Fabisch
Joseph -Hugues Fabisch ( born March 19, 1812 in Aix -en- Provence, † September 7, 1886 in Lyon) was a French sculptor, professor at the School of Art in Lyon and official sculptor of the Archdiocese of Lyon. He created especially Mary and statues of saints in the spirit of renouveau catholique.
Life
Fabisch came from a Polish family. In 1840 he became professor of drawing at the University of Saint -Etienne. In 1845 he went to Lyon, to take up a professorship at the École nationale des beaux -arts de Lyon.
He achieved fame through the golden statue of Mary, which he in 1852 for the tower of the chapel Notre- Dame de Fourvière created - the neighboring basilica was only twenty years later - and overlooked by the Fourvière hill from the old town of Lyon. The day of their solemn consecration on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, December 8, at the origin of the annual winter city festival Fête des Lumières.
1863 got Fabisch the order for his world famous work, the statue of Mary, which according to the wishes of the founders, two sisters Lacour from Lyon, in Massabielle should be placed at the site in Lourdes, had seen at the Bernadette Soubirous, the Marian apparitions. From 15 to September 19, 1863 visited Fabisch Bernadette and could be described exactly by it, as the " lady " was dressed and how she looked. On April 4, 1864 his statue was consecrated in the presence of 20,000 people. Bernadette herself could not recognize their vision in the figure - for Fabisch the "greatest grief of his life as an artist ." Nevertheless, his work has been copied around the world for countless Lourdes Grotto.
1868 created Fabisch another figure of Mary Lourdes, this with the Child Jesus. It stands on the altar of the crypt of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
1874 Fabisch director of the Lyon College, where he taught since 1845.
Works
- Apostle Peter, Place des Terraux
- St. Joseph, St. Joseph's Chapel of the Basilica of Saint -Martin d' Ainay, Lyon