Maurice Reymond de Broutelles
J. Maurice Reymond de Broutelles (born Maurice Reymond, de Broutelles is his spouse name[1], and sometimes also given as "de Brouteilles", 25 April 1862 – 17 November 1936[2]) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, and engraver who worked in Paris, France.
Born in Geneva, Reymond studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Henri Chapu and Félix Joseph Barrias.[3] Reymond had his atelier in Paris, where he frequently presented his works at expositions. At the Expositions Universelles in Paris in 1889 and in 1900 he was awarded a bronze and a silver medal for his works, respectively. He died in Paris at the age of 74.[4]
Selected works
Statue Geschichtsschreiber der Gegenwart (Chronicler of the present) at the Federal Palace in Berne, Switzerland.
Sculptures:
- The calm (plaster statue) and Bust of a child (bronze), both at the Musée Rath in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Statues of Polynesia and South America on the main post office of Geneva.
- Bronze bust of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, University of Geneva.
- Expression study, bronze bust at the Museum of Winterthur, Switzerland.
- Bronze statue of Major Davel in Lausanne, Switzerland (1891).
- The rage, bas-relief.
- A damned (after Dante), marble.
- Bronze busts of Mathias Morhardt and of Félix Vallotton.
- Bronze statues Chronicler of the past and Chronicler of the present besides the main entrance of the Federal Palace in Berne, Switzerland (1901).
- The heads of "Wisdom", "Strength", and "Courage", also at the Federal Palace in Bern; decorations in stone.
- Statue of Alexandre Vinet in Lausanne.
Paintings:
- Nue assise dans les fleurs, nude painting, 1922.
References
- wedding in 1889, in the newspaper Le Matin
- Vollmer, H.: Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, vol. IV, E. A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1958; entry "Reymond (de Broutelles), J. Maurice".
- Bénézit, 1999 edition, vol. 11, entry "Reymond de Broutelles, J. Maurice".
- Veillon, P.: "Reymond de Brouteilles, Maurice", in Brun, C.: Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon, Verlag von Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1908.
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