Aimé Millet
Aimé Millet (born September 28, 1819 in Paris , † January 14, 1891 ibid) was a French sculptor.
Life
Millet came from a family of artists; his father was the miniature painter Frederick Millet (1796-1859), his nephew was Julian Louis Millet (1856-1923).
At the age of 17 Millet came to the École des Beaux-Arts (EBA) in 1836 . He made friends there u. a. with Pierre Jean David d'Angers and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , who were studying there at the same time. His earliest works were created around 1840/41. As a result of some government contracts, in addition to the financial aspects, his social breakthrough soon came. In 1870 he was appointed to the École des Arts décoratifs and this office he held for almost ten years.
Millet died in Paris on January 14, 1891, at the age of 70, and found his final resting place on the Cimetière de Montmartre .
Honors
- 1859 Knight of the Legion of Honor
Student (selection)
- Louis Majorelle (1859-1926)
- Berthe Morisot (1841–1895)
- François Pompon (1855-1933)
Works (selection)
- Vercingetorix statue in Alesia (together with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc).
- François-René de Chateaubriand statue for Saint-Malo , Ille-et-Vilaine department .
- Cassandre se met sous la protection de Pallas for the Jardin des Tuileries . 1877.
- Statue of Phidias for the Jardin de Luxembourg . 1887.
- Statues of Apollon , Euterpe and Polyhymnia on the roof of the Paris Opera . 1869/69.
- Allegorical statue Amérique du Sud for the World's Fair . 1878.
Individual evidence
- ↑ one of the most important of these was the Vercingetorix statue commissioned by Napoleon III.
literature
- James Mackay: The dictionary of sculptors in bronze . Antique Collectors' Club Woodbridge, Suffolk 1995, ISBN 1-85149-110-4 (reprint of 1977 edition).
- Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et docunmentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . New edition Grund, Paris 1999ff.
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SURNAME | Millet, Aimé |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1819 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1891 |
Place of death | Paris |