Jules Dalou

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Jules Dalou, etching by Alphonse Legros

Aimé-Jules Dalou (born December 31, 1838 in Paris , † April 15, 1902 there ) was a French sculptor. His work can be assigned to naturalism .

Life

At the age of eleven, Dalou became a pupil at the drawing school on Rue de l'école de médecine in 1849, where he was taught drawing and modeling according to antiquity from Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux . As his “master student”, Dalou was later able to work in Carpeaux's studio. In 1854 Dalou was admitted to the Paris Art School , where he studied painting with Abel de Pujol and sculpture in the studio of Francisque Joseph Duret .

From then on, Dalou worked as a modeler for bronze casters and goldsmiths until he was able to debut in 1862 with a genre statue in plaster at an exhibition at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (today ENSBA ). In 1870 he created the remarkable statue embroiderer , which was awarded at the Salon de Paris . During the war he joined the National Guard , was accused of participating in the Paris Commune uprising , and fled to England , where his work was widely recognized.

He then returned to Paris and was awarded the Salon Medal of Honor at the Salon of 1883 for two of his large remarkable reliefs; The session of the French Chamber of Deputies on June 23, 1789 and an allegorical glorification of the Republic . The first was a state commission for the National Assembly .

Selection of works

French peasant woman breastfeeding her child (1873), Victoria and Albert Museum
  • 1870: La Brodeuse (The Embroiderer), exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1870
  • 1873: Paysanne française allaitant son enfant (French peasant woman breastfeeding her child), life-size terracotta group , London, Victoria and Albert Museum
  • 1875: La Berceuse (better known under the English title The Rocking Chair , German: the rocking chair), marble group of a mother cradling her child, exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts in 1876, private collection of the Duke of Westminster
  • 1889–1899: Le Triomphe de la République (The Triumph of the Republic), bronze, height 11 m, Paris, 12th arrondissement , Place de la Nation
  • 1890: Monument à Eugène Delacroix (Monument in honor of Eugène Delacroix), erected in 1890, bronze, Paris, 6th arrondissement , Jardin du Luxembourg
  • 1891: Bacchantes , stone, bas-relief, Paris, 16th arrondissement , Jardins Fleuristes de la Ville de Paris
  • 1895: Le Progrès entraînant le commerce et l'industrie , stone, high relief, Paris, 18th arrondissement , 26, rue de Clignancourt, former Grands Magasins Dufayel department store
  • 1896: Monument à Jean Leclaire , replaced by a 1971 copy after the destruction of the first cast in 1943, bronze statue, Paris, 17th arrondissement , Square des Épinettes
  • 1899: Monument à Alphand (Monument in honor of Alphand), Paris, 16th arrondissement, Avenue Foch

Grave figures and portrait busts :

Jules Dalou also created madaillons and medals. Shortly before his death, he commissioned his student Camille Lefèvre with the posthumous completion of various of his work models or their execution in stone or marble.

  • 1907: Monument à Émile Levassor (monument in honor of Émile Levassor ), high relief, based on Jules Dalou's work model (1898, height 1 m, in the reserves of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris ) by Gustave Rives (for the architectural part ) and Dalou's pupil Camille Lefèvre and inaugurated in 1907. Paris, 16th arrondissement, Porte Maillot, Square de l'Amiral-Bruix.

gallery

  • Homage to Eugène Delacroix

  • Homage to Delacroix, detailed

  • Le Triomphe de la République (1889)

  • Le triomphe de Silène , Jardin du Luxembourg , Paris

  • Auguste Rodin. Buste du sculpteur Jules Dalou, 1883. Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Roubaix

  • Mirabeau répondant à Dreux-Brézé (1890), Paris, Palais Bourbon

literature

  • Maurice Dreyfous: Dalou, sa vie et son oeuvre , Paris, 1903, éd. H. Laurens
  • Henriette Caillaux: Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902), L'homme - L'oeuvre , Paris, 1935, Librairie Delagrave
  • John M. Hunisak: The sculptor Jules Dalou - Studies in Style and Imagery . Garland, New York 1977 (also dissertation, New York 1975)

Web links

Commons : Jules Dalou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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personal data
SURNAME Dalou, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalou, Aimé-Jules (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1902
Place of death Paris