Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk

French sculptor
L'Europe, by Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk

Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk (18 February 1820 – 23 July 1885), or Alexandre Schoenewerk, was a French sculptor. He was a student of David d'Angers, and was named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1873.[1]

Selected works

  • La jeune Tarantine (Young Tarantine), marble, 1871 (Musée d'Orsay)
  • L'Europe (Musée d'Orsay square)
  • Jeune fille à la Fontaine, marble, 1873
  • The bather, marble
  • Andromeda, bronze

References

  1. ^ The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Scien: Sculpture and painting, 1887, page 138
  • Jane Turner, The Dictionary of Art, Grove, 1996. ISBN 1-884446-00-0.
  • Hermann Alexander Müller, Allgemeines Künstler-lexicon, Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1901, page 219.
  • Artnet entry
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