Paul Landowski
Paul Maximilien Landowski (born June 1, 1875 in Paris , † March 31, 1961 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) was a French sculptor of Polish origin.
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Paul Landowski was director of the Villa Medici , later director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts , of which he had been a member since 1926, as well as world exhibition curator (1937). At the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam in 1928 , Landowski won a gold medal in sculpture.
He created u. a. Statues for the Reformation Monument in Geneva . His best-known work is the statue of Christ ( Cristo redentor ), completed in 1931 on Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro . It took five years to create it according to the plans of the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa . The sculpture on the grave site Preis in Düsseldorf, as well as on the grave of the art collector Otto Klaus Preis (1936-2003) in the Montmartre cemetery in Paris, are larger than life casts of Jabel le berger ("Jabal, the Shepherd"), a figure from the bronze group Les Fils de Cain ("The Sons of Cain") with Jabel le berger , Jubal le poète and Tubalcaïn le forgeron , who have been in the Tuilleries in Paris since 1906.
Landowski's son, Marcel Landowski , was a French composer and cultural politician.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Landowski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Landowski in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- In the shadow of his monuments - Paul Landowski's drawings in Weimar
Sources, image and sound documents
- Les Landowski, une famille d'artistes à Boulogne-Billancourt. Musique, Sculpture, Architecture, Peinture, Chant, Poésie . (CD-ROM) Espace Landowski, Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt 1998.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Klaus Preis (* 1936 in Düsseldorf; † 2003 in Paris), designer for Nina Ricci, art collector , on findagrave.com, accessed on March 30, 2019
- ↑ Montmartre. Cimetière. Otto Klaus Prize. Paul Landowski. (French) , from montmartre-secret.com, accessed on March 30, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landowski, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Landowski, Paul Maximilien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1961 |
| Place of death | Boulogne-Billancourt , France |