Louis Kley

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Louis Kley (* 1833 in Sens (Yonne) , France , † 1911 in Paris , France) was a French sculptor .

Life

Louis Kley was a student of Justien-Marie Lequien (1796-1881) and worked mainly in Paris. His work mainly includes sculptural representations such as statues, statuettes, medallions, reliefs and portrait busts of children, animals, mythological figures and allegories in Art Nouveau style , which he made from bronze and plaster of paris. Kley exhibited regularly at the Salon de Paris .

Work (selection)

  • Dancer with castanets
  • Girl sitting on a chair with a flower playing 'He loves me, he doesn't love me'
  • Fighting boys
  • Venus
  • Butcher boy , hood ornament
  • Smoking boy
  • Lying putto making music
  • Esmerelda with her goat Djali
  • Egyptian Woman getting Water , Salon 1861

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Review of a bronze vase: around 1900, Art Nouveau, France, Louis Kley. ) In: Bares für Rares , episode 362, season 7, episode 166 from May 22, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zdf.de
  2. ↑ King Ludwig II of Bavaria - seal in the form of the muse Melpomene, signed by Louis Kley (1833 - 1911). In: Hermann Historica .
  3. ↑ † Louis Kley, 1833 Sens - 1911 Paris. In: Hampel auction house.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Pictures of Kley's work. In: artnet .
  5. ↑ Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Mary Roberts: Edges of Empire. Orientalism and Visual Culture. John Wiley & Sons, 2008. p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Kley, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Sens (Yonne) , France
DATE OF DEATH 1911
Place of death Paris , France