Philippe Grass

Philip Grass, ( born May 6, 1801 in Wolxheim, Bas- Rhin, † April 11, 1876 in Strasbourg ) was an Alsatian sculptor of classicism and worked in Strasbourg and surroundings.

Life

He was the son of C. Schoch (1765-1832) and L. Grass, which he also portrayed on canvas. This image is issued in the former Carthusian monastery in Molsheim. His family had already settled for generations in the wine village Wolxheim. Sixteen -year old he takes a lesson in powerlessness and François Joseph Bosio Landolin. He created bronze statues of General Kléber and the prefect Adrien de Lezay - Marnésia, Prefect of the Département de Rhin -et -Moselle (1806-1810) and prefect of the department of Bas- Rhin (1810-1814), as well as numerous works for the Strasbourg Cathedral.

From 1820 to 1823, he trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris. On his return to Alsace, he was appointed " sculptor of Strasbourg Cathedral " at the Strasbourg Münsterbauhütte (→ Musée de l' Oeuvre Notre -Dame) where it was intended to produce according to old documents reproductions of statues, the iconoclasm of the revolutionary period had become the victim. Since 1865, he was a knight of the Legion of Honour.

Grass was a friend of the Breton writer Émile Souvestre, for whose tomb in the Père Lachaise he created a bust. During the siege of Strasbourg, the Museum of Fine Arts, in which there was a part of his works, was put on August 24, 1870 by Prussian artillery fire on fire and completely destroyed.

Philip Grass died on 11 April 1876 in Strasbourg from a stroke and was buried in his hometown.

Honors

A street in Strasbourg and a vineyard in Wolxheim bear his name. In the Museum of the Chartreuse Notre -Dame in Molsheim, a space dedicated to him.

Works (selection)

  • Bronze statues of General Jean- Baptiste Kléber (1840 ) and the Prefect of the Rhine-Moselle département Adrien de Lezay - Marnésia (1845 ) in Strasbourg
  • The Last Judgement, on the facade of Strasbourg Cathedral
  • Icarus spreads its wings (1831 ), during the siege of Strasbourg in 1870 lost work;
  • Susanna and the Elders, edit the classic theme, 1834
  • Group of Niobe 's sons, edit the classic theme, 1846
  • Young farmer, small naive " Bretagnerin ", sitting on a rock, bare feet human bones touching, (1839 ). Inspired by a passage from Souvestres Les Bretons Derniers
  • Sculpture Il Penseroso, 1848
  • Bust of the Finance Minister Jean -Georges Humann
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