André-Joseph Allar

André-Joseph Allar (August 22, 1845 – April 11, 1926) was a French sculptor.

Biography

André-Joseph Allar was born in Toulon on August 22, 1845.

He became a successor sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome in 1869 for sculpture, and became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 20 May 1905. He was also an officer of the Légion d'honneur.

He died in Toulon on April 11, 1926. A street in Marseille has been named in his honor.

Main works

• Hécube découvrant le cadavre de Polydore, musée des Beaux-Arts à Marseille
• La mort d’Alceste, inspired by his wife's death, Lisieux
• Enfant des Abruzzes, musée d'Orsay^[1]
• Thétis portant les armes d’Achille
• Buste de Montricher, gallery of the palais Longchamp in Marseille
• Sainte Madeleine on the facade of the Cathedral de la Major in Marseille
• Monument de la Fédération on the place de la République in Toulon.
• Fontaine de la place Estrangin, Marseille
• Fontaine de la place Castellane, Marseille, in collaboration with Jules Cantini
• Portrait de son frère Gaudensi, museum of Toulon
• Statues de Jean Bullant et de Jean Goujon, on the front of the Mairie de Paris
• Statue de Frédéric Le Play, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
• Monument du Centenaire, Nice

Gallery

References

• Académie de Marseille, Dictionnaire des marseillais, Edisud, Marseille, 2001, (ISBN 2-7449-0254-3)
• Paul Masson, Encyclopédie des Bouches-du-Rhône, Archives départementales, Marseille, 17 volumes, from 1913 to 1937
• Adrien Blés, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Marseille, Jeanne Laffitte ed., Marseille, 1989, (ISBN 2-86276-195-8).
• Bruno Wuillequiey, Denise Jasmin, Luc Georget, Bénédicte Ottinger, Florence Dagousset and Gilles Mihière, Régis Bertrand, Marseille au XIXe, rêves et triomphes, Musées de Marseille (16 November 1991 – 15 February 1992), (ISBN 2-7118-2487-X)
• Régine Allar, La dynastie des Allar, Revue Marseille, 1982, N° 130, pages 138-143

External links

Media related to André-Joseph Allar at Wikimedia Commons