- Robert Couturier (born 1905)
Robert Couturier (
2 May ,1905 –1 October ,2008 ) was a French sculptor. He was born inAngoulême .Biography
In 1920, he joined the École Estienne à Paris and trained in
lithography . On his father's death he was forced to interrupt his studies and joined a lithography studio in Paris. In 1929 he met the sculptorAlfred Janniot and the following year he won the Prix Blumenthal. In 1932 he won a place as an art professor in Paris, where he met several painters, includingHenri Matisse , from whom he received much advice. He was also at one point a student ofAristide Maillol and collaborated with him in1938 Couturier became a laureate of the Fondation Américaine pour la pensée et l'art français in
1930 . In 1937 he created the sculptures for the pavillon de l'élégance at the Exposition Internationale in collaboration with the architectEmile Aillaud . He was taken prisoner during theGerman occupation of France but escaped and reached the unoccupied zone. On the Liberation, he was made professor at Paris's École des Ars décoratifs, and later became a professor at Paris's École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts. In 1947 he exhibited at the London exhibiton of Anglo-French art, in 1950 at theVenice Biennale and in 1951 at theSao-Paulo Biennale .He was the subject of devoted exhibitions at the
musée Rodin (1970) and theMonnaie de Paris (1975). He won the prix Wildestein in1966 and was a founder-member of theSalon de Mai . Works by him are on display in museums and galleries in Paris,Bayeux ,Poitiers ,Madrid ,Rio de Janeiro ,Boston ,Jerusalem , Hakone,Anvers andHavana .He died at the age of 103.
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*" [http://imagoart.club.fr/couturier.htm Robert Couturier] " in the "Encyclopédie audiovisuelle de l'art contemporain"
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