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French artist
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Place of birth
Wolxheim
Death
9 April 1876 (aged 74 years)
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Place of death
Strasbourg
Age
74 years
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Biography
Philippe Grass (born in Wolxheim on May 6, 1801; died in Strasbourg on 9 April 1876) was a French sculptor. Hw was a pupil of Landolin Ohmacht and Baron François Joseph Bosio. From 1820 to 1823, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. After his comeback to Alsace, he was appointed sculptor of the Fondation de l'l’Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg. In 1865, he became a knight of the Legion of Honor. He made the portrait of his friend Émile Souvestre on his tomb at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Selected works
- Statue du général Jean-Baptiste Kléber, bronze, 1840
- Statue du préfet Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, 1845, in Strasbourg
- Jugement dernier, on the facade of the cathedral of Strasbourg
- Icare déployant ses ailes, 1831
- Suzanne au bain, 1834
- Jeune Paysanne, 1839
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