Constant Roux

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Constant Roux

Constant Ambroise Roux (born April 20, 1865 in Marseille , France , † November 17, 1942 there ) was a French sculptor .

Life

Roux was the son of the chemist Antoine Paulin Roux and his wife Marie Marguerite Philip. As a child he showed interest in carving wood and shaping clay, whereupon he completed an apprenticeship with the cabinet maker and wood carver Michel Achille Blanqui. He was a student of the sculptors Émile Aldebert , André Marie Guindon and Théodore Jourdan . At the suggestion of his teachers, Roux decided to continue his studies in Paris , where he worked for Pierre-Jules Cavelier for three years .

After his military service, he returned to Marseille in 1889. He took part in a competition for the Bourse Triennale scholarship , which he won with his bas-relief La belle Chryséis rendu à son père and was able to study at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris . Louis-Ernest Barrias became his teacher . He exhibited from 1892 to 1940 at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français , of which he was an extraordinary member hors concours (out of competition). In 1894 he received the Prix ​​de Rome .

Sculpture Jean Bouin , 1922
Statue La science découvrant la richesse de l'océan in front of the Princely Palace, Monaco.

After the First World War he received various orders for war memorials. In 1922 he created a bust of the French runner Jean Bouin , which was erected on the forecourt of the Vélodrome municipal de Vincennes in Paris on the occasion of the 1924 Olympic Games .

Roux mainly produced busts , portraits , reliefs and friezes in the style of realism . Some of these works were handcrafted and distributed by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) and sculptor Jules Levi-Lehmann .

He was a participant in the 1928 Summer Olympics art competition in Amsterdam .

Roux was the brother-in-law of the painter Adolphe Déchenaud .

Honors

In 1920 he became an officer of the Order of St. Charles of Monaco . In 1923 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1925 he became a member of the Académie de Marseille and was given the place previously taken by his teacher Émile Aldebert.

Works (selection)

  • Statue in the park of the Louis Salvator Hospital in Marseille

  • Bronze statuette The Wrath of Achilles

  • Interpretation of the coat of arms of Monaco above the entrance door of the Institute of Human Paleontology, Paris

  • Monument des mobiles, Marseille

  • Wall relief L'eau from 1904, Art Museum of Roubaix

literature

Web links

Commons : Constant Ambroise Roux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constant Ambroise ROUX Sculpteur Marseillais. In: Genealogy Provence
  2. ↑ a b data sheet Constant Ambroise Roux. In: Musée d'Orsay
  3. ↑ Roux, Constant Ambroise. In: Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs.
  4. ↑ a b c d Constant Ambroise Roux. In: sports-reference.com
  5. ↑ a b c data sheet Roux, Constant (1865-1942). In: Bibliothèque nationale de France
  6. ^ Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors' Club Art Books, 2016, ISBN 1-85149-824-9 , p. 32.
  7. ^ Laurent Noet: Constant Roux (1865-1942). Un sculpteur à la cour du prince Albert I de Monaco. Les Annales monégasque, Monaco 2002.
  8. ^ Entry in Base Léonore .
personal data
SURNAME Roux, Constant
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roux, Constant Ambroise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille , France
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1942
Place of death Marseille , France