Maurice Bouval

Bouval's work Encrier in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Maurice Bouval (born March 9, 1863 in Toulouse , France , † 1916 ) was a French sculptor .

Life

Bouval was a student of the painter and sculptor Alexandre Falguière and was active as an artist from 1880 to 1914. He created numerous bronze statues as well as chandeliers, candelabra and table lamps in the Art Nouveau style . In addition to some of his bronze designs, the Vienna manufactory Friedrich Goldscheider also produced terracottas based on his models. Bouval designed the company logo "Sculpture" for Goldscheider, which was not only used as a manufactory signet on products between 1900 and 1920, but was also produced in various sizes as an advertising sign for shops selling products from Goldscheider. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français and presented the works Vamireh en chasse and Les Raisins at their Salon in 1895 . He showed other works at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 .

Works (selection)

Statue on top of the Casa de la Cultura , Buenos Aires.

General view of the building.

For the top of the Casa de la Cultura in Buenos Aires , Argentina , Bouval designed a five meter high and four and a half ton statue of a female figure.

Encrier , 1900, today Musée d'Orsay , Paris.
Ophelia
Femme assise
Jeune femme
Le Sommeil
Femme aux pavots
Le Secret et la Pensive
Les Nénuphars
La Jeunesse , 1900
Jeune fille au nénuphar
La Pensée, 1905
Le lierre
Chardon , table lamp, 1903
Un chasseur

literature

Victor Arwas : Art Nouveau. The French Aesthetic. Papadakis, 2002. ISBN 1-90109-237-2 . P. 237.
Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs. Oxford University Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-19977-379-4 . Volume 2, p. 250.
Andreas Beyer , Bénédicte Savoy , Wolf Tegethoff , Eberhard König : General artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Saur, Munich 1992. Volume 13, p. 413.
Alastair Duncan : The Paris Salons 1895-1914. Volume V: Objet d'art and Metalware . Woodbridge, 1999. p. 34.
Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 .

Web links

Maurice Bouval (French, 1863-1916). In: artnet , with pictures of Bouval's work.

Individual evidence

↑ Notice Artiste n ° 5277, Maurice Bouval. In: Musée d'Orsay , Paris.
↑ Espacio casa de la cultura . In: Buenos Aires Ciudad.
↑ Maurice Bouval. Encrier. En 1900. In: Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Remarks

↑ Union List of Artist Names gives the year of death " approx. 1920 " .

personal data
SURNAME	Bouval, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toulouse , France
DATE OF DEATH	1916

[1] Notice Artiste n ° 5277, Maurice Bouval. In: Musée d'Orsay , Paris.

[3] Espacio casa de la cultura . In: Buenos Aires Ciudad.

[4] Maurice Bouval. Encrier. En 1900. In: Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

[2] Union List of Artist Names gives the year of death " approx. 1920 " .