Philippe Grass

Philippe Grass (6 May 1801 – 9 April 1876) was a French sculptor.

Career

Born in Wolxheim, Alsace, Grass 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 return to Alsace, he was appointed sculptor of the Fondation de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg. In 1865, he became a knight of the Legion of Honour. He made the portrait of his friend Émile Souvestre on his tomb on the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

He died in Strasbourg.

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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1801 births

1876 deaths

19th-century French sculptors

French male sculptors

People from Bas-Rhin

19th-century French male artists