Houdebine

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Houdebine was a French bronze sculptural foundry that existed in Paris from 1845 to 1910 .

history

Worker Henri Houdebine started a small foundry in 1845 and quickly built a reputation for making clocks and decorative bronze furnishings such as candlesticks and mantels. In the 1860s he was inspired by the neo-renaissance style and later by the art nouveau style . From 1862 the foundry exported around 50 percent of its production.

The foundry participated in several world exhibitions in part, so in 1855 in Paris , where Houdebines statuettes were given a medal Second Class, and in 1862 in London and in 1878 and 1889 in Paris , where she won the gold medal for all exhibited works. At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Houdebine showed magnificent light holders as well as clocks and some sculptures. In the 1900s, the foundry produced artificial bronzes for the sculptors Jules Dalou , Antoine Bofill , Marius Mars-Vallet , Émile Louis Picault , Louis de Monard and others.

The foundry often changed its name and address, until the 1850s it was called Henri Houdebine et Cie. and was located at 3 rue de la Perle; around 1860 she moved to 44 Rue Saint-Louis-au-Marais (later renamed Rue de Turenne) and called herself first Henri Houdebine and VF Blumberg , then from 1865 to 1880 Henri Houdebine; then Houdebine & Fils. The foundry existed until 1910.

literature

  • Pierre Kjellberg: Les bronzes du XIXe siècle. Les Ed. de l'amateur, 1989, p. 661.
  • Catalog officiel, Exposition Universelle. Section française, BAD, T.XI, Classe 31, London 1862, p. 205.
  • Exposition Universelle de 1889. List of récompenses attribuées aux exposants. Journal Officiel, Classe 25, Paris 1889.

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