Augustin-Alexandre Dumont

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay : Portrait of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, charcoal pencil drawing (1829)

Augustin-Alexandre Dumont or Auguste Dumont (born August 14, 1801 in Paris , † January 28, 1884 there ) was a French sculptor .

Life

Le Génie de la Liberté , July Column , Paris, Place de la Bastille

Augustin-Alexandre was the eldest son of three children of the artist couple, Jacques-Edme Dumont (1761–1844) and Marie Louise Elisabeth Curton. His younger sister Jeanne Louise (1804–1875) was a well-known pianist . The family lived in the newly founded artists' settlement on the Sorbonne and Augustin-Alexandre grew up in a liberal and cultural environment. His father recognized his son's talent early on and urgently advised him to study in Paris. He enrolled at the renowned École des Beaux-Arts to continue studying under Pierre Cartellier . In 1823 Dumont won the Prix de Rome with a sculpture and thus a multi-year artist grant with a stay in Rome . For the next seven years, Dumont studied the Old Masters of the Renaissance and Baroque . After returning to France, he opened a studio in Paris. Dumont made extensive monumental portrait statues and allegorical figures for public buildings.

Awards

1836: Knight of the Legion of Honor
1852: Teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts
1855: Officer of the Legion of Honor
1863: Professor at the École des Beaux-Arts
1870: Commander of the Legion of Honor

Others

In the middle of the 18th century , the Dumont family was one of the select artist families who could live in the Louvre . Augustin-Alexandre Dumont was born in the Louvre before his parents moved near the Sorbonne in 1804. One of his students was Hélène Bertaux .

literature

Dumont, Augustine (-Alexandre) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 126–127 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Pierre Kjellberg: Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris , La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris 1988, p.
Emmanuel Schwartz: Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris , Histoire, doctrines, catalog, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris 2003, p.

Web links

Commons : Auguste Dumont - collection of images, videos and audio files

Biographical Artist Lexicon, 1882
Dumont, Augustin Alexandre . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 5, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 209.
General artist lexicon

personal data
SURNAME	Dumont, Augustin-Alexandre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dumont, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	January 28, 1884
Place of death	Paris