Georges Gardet
Georges Gardet (born October 11, 1863 in Paris , † February 6, 1939 there ) was a French sculptor. Born into a family of sculptors (his father and brother were also sculptors), Gardet studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , where he was a student of Aimé Millet and Emmanuel Frémiet . He soon showed particular talent in the production of animal sculptures, which he specialized in his entire life. At the age of 20, Gardet exhibited works at the Salon de Paris . In 1891 he celebrated his first success with the work Desert Drama . He received numerous orders from wealthy customers who wanted their pets immortalized or who wanted to beautify their garden or home. He made numerous objects out of plaster of paris, which were often cast in bronze, as well as statues in porcelain , marble and, with particular preference, in spotted or colored types of stone. In 1900 he took part in the Paris World Exhibition with monumental lion and tiger pairs, which are now in the park of Vaux-le-Vicomte Castle . In the same year he was also appointed officer of the Legion of Honor . He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Société des Artistes Français ; to this day, Gardet is considered one of the greatest artists of the French school of animal sculpture.
Works
- Panther and Python ( Parc Montsouris , Paris, 1887)
- Great Dane ( Musée Condé , Chantilly , 1891)
- Desert drama ( Drame au désert , bronze, Parc Montsouris, Paris, 1891)
- Bison and Jaguar ( Musée de Laval , 1892)
- Vulture (bronze, Jardin des Plantes , Paris, 1896)
- Lion with Child (Stein, Pont Alexandre III , Paris, 1900)
- Group of deer ( Parc de Sceaux , 1900)
- Panther devouring a sheep ( Musée d'Orsay , 1907)
- Elephant attacked by a tiger (bronze, Parc Maurice Thorez , Ivry-sur-Seine , exhibited at Salon 1910)
- Two bison (bronze, Manitoba Legislative Building , Winnipeg )
"Le Lion e la Lionne" Vaux-le-Vicomte , Maincy ( France )
Lion , Pont Alexandre III , Paris
Deer family , Palermo , Buenos Aires
Two deer fighting , private property
Lion , St. Mark's School, Southborough , Massachusetts
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notice d'autorité personne. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, December 7, 2011, accessed December 8, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Wolf Stadler u. a .: Lexicon of Art 5th Gal - Mr. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-86070-452-4 , p. 12.
- ^ Nella Buscot: Biography of Georges Gardet. 2013, accessed December 8, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gardet, Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1939 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |