Jean-Antoine Injalbert
Jean-Antoine Injalbert (born February 23, 1845 in Béziers , France , † January 20, 1933 in Paris , France) was a French sculptor .
Life
Injalbert was the son of a stonemason. The student of the sculptor Augustin-Alexandre Dumont won the Prix de Rome in 1874 for his work La Douleur d'Orphée . He showed his work Le Christ at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 . He won the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 ; in 1900 he became a member of the jury. In 1896, on the day of the inauguration of the Pont Mirabeau in Paris, for which Injalbert designed four figures, he was made an officer of the Legion of Honor . In 1905 he became a member of the Institut de France and in 1910 was promoted to commander of the Legion of Honor.
From around 1915 he taught at the Académie Colarossi , the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Among his many students were artists such as Antun Augustinčić , František Bílek , Georges Gori , Fernand Guignier , Edward McCartan , Raymond Léon Rivoire , Édouard-Marcel Sandoz , Pierre Traverse and Jean Verschneider .
Works (selection)
- Lions , statues at the Porte du Peyrou in Montpellier from 1883.
- Four statues at the Opéra Comédie , Montpellier.
- Pediment at the entrance to the Fabre Museum , Place de la Comédie, Montpellier.
- Pediment of the Saint-Eloi Hospital , Montpellier.
- Bronze Hippomène , Musée d'Orsay , Paris.
- Bust of Marianne , 1889.
- L'Électricité and Le Commerce , bas-reliefs on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, depicting electricity and commerce.
- Crucifixion , Reims Cathedral , 1898.
- Bordeaux and Toulouse , allegorical statues at Tours train station , 1898.
- La Ville Paris entourée de Muses , tympanum of the Petit Palais , Paris, 1900.
- Figures of Injalberts at the Pont Mirabeau (1896)
La Ville de Paris
La navigation
L'Abondance
Le Commerce
- Examples of Injalbert's work
L'Électricité and Le Commerce , Pont de Bir-Hakeim , Paris.
Bust of Marianne , 1889.
Monument to Auguste Comte , Place de la Sorbonne, Paris, 1902.
Monument to Peter Puget , Jardin Alexander I, Toulon .
Monument to Louis Gallet , Valence .
Bust of the French writer Paul Arène.
Monument to Amélie d'Orléans .
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literature
- Injalbert, Jean Antoine (1845-1933). Sculptor, designer . In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
- Jean-Pierre Vanderspelden: Injalbert, statuaire (1845-1933) . Ville de Béziers, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1992, 510 pp.
- Anne Pingeot (ed.): La sculpture française au XIXe Siècle . Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1986.
Web links
- Jean Antoine Injalbert . In: artnet , with pictures of Injalbert's work.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Jean-Antoine Injalbert in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Remarks
- ↑ Bénézit names March 3, 1933 as the date of death.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Injalbert, Jean-Antoine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Injalbert, Jean; Injalbert, Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beziers , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1933 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |