Léopold Morice

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Léopold Morice (* 1846 in Nîmes , † 1919 in Paris ) was a French sculptor.

Life

Morice began his training in François Jouffroy's studio . He attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , where he received his first awards. From 1875 he was able to conclude work contracts in Paris, Dunkirk , Nîmes , Pompignan in the Gard department and Le Vigan .

Probably the most famous of his works is the 9.5 m high statue of Marianne, executed in 1883, for the Monument à la République on the Place de la République in Paris. The mighty base of this work was created by his brother, the architect François-Charles Morice (1848–1908). The monument, which was victorious in the competition in 1880, is located on an important intersection created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann when the new Parisian streets were built, as decided by the Paris City Council .

Under the direction of Morice, Max Leu worked on the sculptural decoration of the "Hôtel de Ville".

Morice also created the large bronze reliefs for the Monument à Raspail on Place Denfert-Rochereau and in 1900 two sculptures for the Pont Alexandre III bridge in Paris, which was built for the World's Fair . In 1910 and 1911 he was able to commission two monuments for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , the commander of the French troops in Canada 1756-1759. One monument is in his birthplace Vestric-et-Candiac ( Cantal ) and the other in Québec , where Montcalm died in 1759.

In the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris you can find the tomb he designed for Germain Hervé , the burial temple for Elisabeth Serieys , on which he worked, and the tomb for members of the Moris family with a bronze sculpture from 1877 cast by Henry Dasson for Adélaïde Louis Jeanne Victoire Herbemont (1802-1875). In the Montmartre cemetery , a bronze statue of The Weeping adorns the Porlier tomb.

A relief of Susanne and the old men created by Morice in 1888 is at the Guebwiller hospital and a war memorial from 1906 in Dunkirk.

The Chazen Museum of Art in Madison , Wisconsin, USA, has a large bronze equestrian statue of Napoleon from Morice from 1870.

During his creative period, the artist trained numerous young sculptors, including Jules Edouard Roiné .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helke Rausch: cult figure and nation. Public monuments in Paris, Berlin and London; 1848-1914. Oldenbourg, Munich 2002 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg 2002), p. 700.
  2. ↑ Thomas Chapais: Le marquis de Montcalm, Québec, 1911.
  3. ↑ Detail of Paris sculptures
  4. ^ Lexicon of the sculpture Nella Buscot
  5. ^ Reference on the museum website , accessed on April 17, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Morice, Léopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes
DATE OF DEATH 1919
Place of death Paris