Camille Alaphilippe

French artist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFrench artist
PlacesFrance
isArtist Sculptor
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
Birth13 August 1874, Tours
DeathAlgiers
The details

Biography

Camille Alaphilippe (1874 – after 1934) was a French sculptor.
Alaphilippe was born in Tours in 1874. At the age of 19, he was the pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens and Louis-Ernest Barrias to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris.
In 1898, at 24, he won the first great Prix de Rome in sculpture with a statue on the subject Caïn après la mort d'Abel poursuivi par la vengeance céleste or Caïn après la mort d'Abel entend la malédiction de l'Éternel.
He died in Algeria sometime after 1934.

Major works

The Monument aux morts de Philippeville, by Alaphilippe, transferred since 1969 to Toulouse
  • Caïn après la mort d'Abel poursuivi par la vengeance céleste, 1898, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
  • La Consolation, 1901
  • Mystères douloureux, 1905, Mirabeau garden in Tours
  • La Femme au singe, 1908, museum of Petit Palais in Paris
  • Monument aux morts de Philippeville, Skikda in Algeria, transferred to Toulouse

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