Hector Lemaire

Hector Lemaire , actually Hector Joseph Lemaire (born August 15, 1846 in Lille , Département Nord , † May 14, 1933 in Paris ) was a French sculptor.

Life

Lemaire received his first artistic lessons at the École des Beaux-Arts (EBA) in his hometown. As one of the best students of his year, he was granted a scholarship that enabled him to stay at the Wicar studio in Rome between 1866 and 1870 .

In the spring of 1870 Lemaire returned to France and settled in Paris. At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War he volunteered for the army. After the end of the war he returned to Paris and became a student of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and Alexandre Falguière at the EBA there .

The year before, in 1869, Lemaire made his successful debut at the great annual exhibition of the Salon de Paris on the recommendation of his teachers . In the following years, works by Lemaire were repeatedly to be seen at these exhibitions, which were also praised by the official art critics.

In addition to his work in his studio, Lemaire worked for many years in Paris as a lecturer at the EBA, which he had already attended as a student. Works by Lemaire are now in the possession of the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai in northern France .

Student (selection)

• André Becquerel (1893–1981)
• Edouard Chassaing
• Charles Despiau (1874-1946)
• Victor Nicolas (1906–11979)

Works (selection)

• Deux musiciennes . 1877.
• Andromède enchaînée . 1901.
• La roche qui pleure . Around 1900.
• Vase with Pan . 1923.
• Deux Amours . 1884.

literature

• Hector Lemaire . In: Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 8 . Grund, Paris 1999.
• Hector Lemaire: La rhetorique des classes ou traité de composition et de style . Delalain, Paris 1868.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Named after the artist Jean-Baptiste Wicar (1762–1834)
2. ↑ Information on a website of the French Ministry of Culture (French) , accessed on April 7, 2013.