- Jean Fréour
Jean Fréour (born 1919) is a Breton
sculptor .Fréour was born in
Nantes . He studied at theBordeaux School of the Fine arts and attended the classes of Louis-Henry Bouchard in the national School of the Fine arts inParis . He is a member of the Breton artistic movementSeiz Breur .In the mid 1950s he settled in the Breton south coast town of
Batz-sur-Mer . For a period of a year, he was mayor of the town.In his work, Fréour uses different materials, including the
schist ,marble ,onyx , andwood . His sculptures often carry a stamp of Breton identity impregnated withCatholicism .He is the author of the statue of
Anne of Brittany (made ofbronze and erected in the city of Nantes in 2002).External links
* [http://www.corpusetampois.com/cae-21-jeanfreour-annedebretagne.html Bronze statue Anne de Bretagne by Jean Fréour]
* [http://www.webmatters.net/belgium/ww1_potyze_fr.htm Monument by Freour to First World War soldiers at the St Charles de Potyze cemetery]
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