List of sculptors
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- Wäinö AaltonenWäinö AaltonenWäinö Valdemar Aaltonen was a Finnish artist and sculptor. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "one of the leading Finnish sculptors".He was born to a tailor in the village of Marttila, Finland...
(1894–1966) - Magdalena AbakanowiczMagdalena AbakanowiczMagdalena Abakanowicz is a Polish sculptor. She is notable for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium. She was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland from 1965 to 1990 and a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles in 1984...
(1930– ) - Abed AbdiAbed AbdiAbed Abdi is an Arab Israeli painter, graphic designer, sculpturer and lecturer of the arts.Abdi worked as a blacksmith and illustrated Arabic publications that appeared in Israel. After studying in Dresden, Abdi became the first Palestinian to build monumental art on native soil...
(1942– ) Israeli Palestinian master blacksmith, sculptor, painter and graphic designer - Yaacov AgamYaacov AgamYaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.-Biography:Yaakov Agam was born Yaakov Gipstein on May 11, 1928, in Rishon LeZion, then Mandate Palestine...
(1928– ) - Agasias, son of DositheusAgasias, son of DositheusAgasias , son of Dositheus, was an ancient Greek sculptor of Ephesus. One of the productions of his chisel, the statue known by the name of the Borghese Gladiator, is still preserved in the gallery of the Louvre. This statue was discovered among the ruins of a palace of the Roman emperors on the...
(4th century BC) - Peter AgostiniPeter AgostiniPeter Agostini was an American sculptor.-Life:He studied at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School in 1935 and 1936....
(1913-1993) - Kinji AkagawaKinji AkagawaKinji Akagawa is an American sculptor and arts educator best known for sculptural constructions that also serve a practical function. A pioneer in the public art movement, Akagawa has throughout his career examined the relationship between art and community, most notably the concept of art as a...
(1940– ) - Benjamin Paul AkersBenjamin Paul AkersBenjamin Paul Akers was an American sculptor, from Maine.-Early life:Born in Saccarappa, Maine in 1825, Akers moved to Boston in 1849 where he was an apprentice...
(1825–1861) - AleijadinhoAleijadinhoAleijadinho was a Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil....
–Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738–1814) - Károly AlexyKároly AlexyKároly Alexy was a Hungarian sculptor. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and romanticism....
(1823–1880) - Alessandro AlgardiAlessandro AlgardiAlessandro Algardi was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.-Early years:...
(1595–1654) - Christophe-Gabriel AllegrainChristophe-Gabriel AllegrainChristophe-Gabriel Allegrain was a French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness, under the influence of his much more famous brother-in-law, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle....
(1710–1795) - Edward AllingtonEdward AllingtonEdward Allington is an English artist and sculptor.He studied at Lancaster College of Art 1968–71, the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London 1971–74 and the Royal College of Art 1983–84.He won the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Prize in 1989, was Gregory Fellow in Sculpture at...
(1951– ) - Nir AlonNir AlonNir Alon is an Israeli sculptor and an installation artist. Alon studied from 1988 until 1992 at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In 1996 he received the prize for young artists of the Israeli Ministry for education and Culture. In 1998 he participated in an exchange exhibition...
(1964– ) - Walter Allward (1876–1955)
- Ahmed Al SafiAhmed Al SafiAhmed Al Safi , was born in Al Diwaniyah, Iraq in 1971.Al Safi studied sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Baghdad.He won the Ismail Fatah Al Turk Prize for young sculptors in 2000....
(1971– ) - Bartolomeo AmmanatiBartolomeo AmmanatiBartolomeo Ammannati was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo.He was more distinguished in architecture than in sculpture...
(1511–1592) - Eric Adjetey AnangEric Adjetey AnangEric Adjetey Anang is a Ghanaian sculptor born in Teshie, Ghana, where he lives and works.-Biography:In 2001, he introduced Ghana design coffins at Gidan Makama Museum Kano, Nigeria, under the auspices of Alliance française in Kano....
(1985– ) - Constantine AndreouConstantine AndreouConstantine Andreou , was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades...
(1917–2007) - Mark AntokolskiMark AntokolskiMark Matveyevich Antokolski was a Russian sculptor who was admired for psychological complexity of his historical images and panned for occasional lapses into sentimentalism.-Biography:...
(1843–1902) - Alexander ArchipenkoAlexander ArchipenkoAlexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist.-Biography:...
(1887–1964) - Lucien den ArendLucien den ArendLucien Armand Marco den Arend is a geometric abstract sculptor. As is the case with concrete art, his work is not modeled after any existing object – his sculpture represents only itself. Most of his sculptures and Land art projects were made as public art.Den Arend was born in Dordrecht, The...
(1943– ) - Henry Hugh ArmsteadHenry Hugh ArmsteadHenry Hugh Armstead was an English sculptor and illustrator, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.-Life:...
(1828–1905) - Jean ArpJean ArpJean Arp / Hans Arp was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper....
(1886–1966) - David AscalonDavid AscalonDavid Ascalon is a contemporary sculptor and stained glass artist, and co-founder of Ascalon Studios.-Biography:Ascalon was born in Tel Aviv, in the British Mandate of Palestine on March 8, 1945...
(1945– ) - Maurice AscalonMaurice AscalonMaurice Ascalon , a designer and sculptor, is, by some accounts, considered the father of the modern Israeli decorative arts movement.- Biography :Maurice Ascalon was born as Moshe Klein in eastern Hungary...
(1913–2003) - Ásmundur SveinssonÁsmundur SveinssonÁsmundur Sveinsson was an Icelandic sculptor, was born at Kolsstadir in West Iceland on May 20, 1893 and died in Reykjavík on December 9, 1982.-Early years:...
(1893–1982) - Hezekiah AugurHezekiah AugurHezekiah Augur was an early American sculptor and inventor. He was a self-taught sculptor and, unlike many other 19th Century sculptors did not travel to Europe, but spent his entire career in New Haven....
(1791–1858) - Antun AugustinčićAntun AugustincicAntun Augustinčić was a prominent Croatian sculptor. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th century...
(1900–1979)
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- John Bacon (1740–1799)
- Frances BagleyFrances BagleyFrances Bagley is an American sculptor who was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee on April 7, 1946. In 1969 she received a BFA in painting from Arizona State University , in 1971 an MA from Arizona State University and in 1980 an MFA in sculpture from the University of North Texas...
(1946– ), American - César BaldacciniCésar BaldacciniCésar Baldaccini , usually called César was a noted French sculptor.César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions , expansions , and fantastic representations of animals and insects.- Biography :He...
(1921–1998) - Percival BallPercival BallPercival Ball was an English sculptor active in Australia.Ball was born in Westminster, London, the son of Edward Henry Ball, carver, and his wife Louisa, née Percival. He later studied at the Royal Academy of Arts schools in England winning several gold medals and prizes. Between 1865 and 1882 he...
(1845–1900) - Thomas Ball (artist)Thomas Ball (artist)Thomas Ball was an American artist and musician. His work has had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England.-Life:...
(1819–1911 - Baccio Bandinelli (1493–1560)
- Thomas BanksThomas BanksThomas Banks , English sculptor, son of a surveyor who was land steward to the Duke of Beaufort, was born in London. He was taught drawing by his father, and in 1750 was apprenticed to a woodcarver. In his spare time he worked at sculpture, spending his evenings in the studio of the Flemish émigré...
(1735–1808) - Ernst BarlachErnst BarlachErnst Barlach was a German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the war made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against the war...
(1870–1938) - Bill BarrettBill Barrett (artist)Bill Barrett is an American sculptor, painter and jeweller.He is considered a central figure in the second-generation of American metal sculptors and is internationally known for his abstract sculptures in steel, aluminum and bronze....
(1934– ) - Louis-Ernest BarriasLouis-Ernest BarriasLouis-Ernest Barrias was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school.He was born in Paris into a family of artists. His father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother Félix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter...
(1841–1905) - Artur BarrioArtur BarrioArtur Barrio is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Much of his work consists of installation pieces that create interaction with the public. Barrio engages the viewer as participant in his art, often without their knowledge that it is art in which they are participating...
(1945– ) - Frédéric BartholdiFrédéric BartholdiFrédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty.-Life and career:...
(1834–1904) - Lorenzo BartoliniLorenzo BartoliniLorenzo Bartolini was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail which led him furthermore in the future, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather than the overpowering influence of Antonio...
(1777–1850) - Antoine-Louis BaryeAntoine-Louis BaryeAntoine-Louis Barye was a French sculptor most famous for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals.-Biography:Born in Paris, Barye began his career as a goldsmith, like many sculptors of the Romantic Period...
(1796–1875) - Earl W. BascomEarl W. BascomEarl W. Bascom was an American painter, printmaker, rodeo performer and sculptor, raised in Canada, who portrayed his own experiences cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West.- Childhood :...
(1906–1995) - Leonard BaskinLeonard BaskinLeonard Baskin was an American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.-Life and work:...
(1922–2000) - Harry BatesHarry Bates (sculptor)Harry Bates A.R.A. , English sculptor, was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Bates was elected to the Royal Academy in 1892 as A.R.A. and was an active, if intermittent, member of the Art Workers Guild. He was a central figure in the British movement known as the New Sculpture...
(1850–1899) - John Nelson BattenbergJohn Nelson BattenbergJohn Nelson Battenberg is an American sculptor.Battenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1931. An artist named John Goray first influenced him when Battenberg was about 10 years old. Battenberg did his undergraduate work in art at various Midwestern universities. He also attended the Ruskin...
(1931– ) - Reginald E. BeauchampReginald E. BeauchampReginald E. Beauchamp was an American sculptor whose works include Penny Franklin , Whispering Bells of Freedom , and a bust of Connie Mack that sits in the Baseball Hall of Fame....
(1910–2000) - Larry BellLarry Bell (artist)Larry Bell is a contemporary American artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Taos, New Mexico, and maintains a studio in Venice, California. From 1957 to 1959 he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles as a student of Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben, Robert Chuey, and Emerson Woelfer...
(1939– ) - Hans BellmerHans BellmerHans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.-Biography:...
(1902–1975) - Giacomo BenevelliGiacomo BenevelliGiacomo Benevelli was an Italian sculptor.He was brought up in France.He has lived and worked for over forty years in Milan....
(1925– ) - Lynda BenglisLynda BenglisLynda Benglis is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. After earning a BFA from Newcomb College in 1964, Benglis moved to New York, where she lives and works today...
(1941 –) - Edward BergeEdward BergeEdward Henry Berge was an American sculptor born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is mainly known for his bronze monumental works and figures...
(1876–1924) - Arnold Henry BergierArnold Henry BergierArnold Henry Bergier was an artist who created bronze sculptures. He lived in New York. He died 19 January 2007 in New York City at the age of 92.-Sculptures by Arnold Henry Bergier:*John Dewey *John Barbirolli *Arturo Toscanini...
(1914–2007) - Gian Lorenzo BerniniGian Lorenzo BerniniGian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect...
(1598–1680) - Claude BertinClaude BertinClaude Bertin was a French sculptor, who was part of the highly-trained team that supplied sculptures for Versailles. His monumental marble vases, following the type of the Borghese Vase, with rich bas-reliefs of fruit, swags of ivy or friezes of mythological scenes, executed between 1687 and...
(died 1705) - Miguel BerrocalMiguel BerrocalMiguel Ortíz y Berrocal was an artist known for his puzzle sculptures. He was born in Villanueva de Algaidas, Málaga, Spain, and married Maria Cristina de Bragança . He received formal training in mathematics, architecture, chemistry, and art...
(1933– ) - Treffle BerthlaumeTreffle BerthlaumeTreffle Berthlaume was a sculptor. He was born in Havre-St. Pierre, Quebec, Canada, to father Jean-Paul, a carpenter of modest means, and mother Brigitte...
(1803–1884) - Leonardo BistolfiLeonardo BistolfiLeonardo Bistolfi was an Italian sculptor, an important exponent of Italian Symbolism.Bistolfi was born in Casale Monferrato in Piedmont, north-west Italy, to Giovanni Bistolfi, a sculptor in wood, and to Angela Amisano....
(1859–1933) - Karl BitterKarl BitterKarl Theodore Francis Bitter was an Austrian-born United States sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture, memorials and residential work.- Life and career :...
(1867–1915) - Marguerite Louis BlasingameMarguerite Louis BlasingameMarguerite Louis Blasingame was an American sculptor. She was born Marguerite Louis in Honolulu in 1906. She graduated from the University of Hawaii and then went on to earn an M. A. in art from Stanford University in 1928. Marguerite returned to Hawaii, where she became an established sculptor...
(1906–1947) - William BloyeWilliam BloyeWilliam James Bloye was an English sculptor, active in Birmingham either side of World War II.He studied, and later, taught at the Birmingham School of Art , where his pupils included Gordon Herickx, Raymond Mason and Ian Walters...
(1890–1975) - Joseph Bonomi the YoungerJoseph Bonomi the YoungerJoseph Bonomi the Younger was an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator.-Early life:Bonomi was born in London into a family of architects...
(1796–1878) - Lee BontecouLee BontecouLee Bontecou is an American artist who was born 15 January 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended the Art Students League of New York from 1952 to 1955, where she studied with the sculptor William Zorach. She received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome in 1957-1958 and the Louis...
(1931– ) - Gutzon BorglumGutzon BorglumGutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, the famous carving on Stone Mountain near Atlanta, as well as other public works of art.- Background :The son of Mormon Danish immigrants, Gutzon...
(1867–1941) - Michael BoroniecMichael BoroniecMichael Boroniec is an American sculptor who resides and works in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.- Work :...
(1983– ), American - Miklós BorsosMiklós BorsosMiklós Borsos was a Hungarian sculptor. His style integrated elements of archaic art and classicism with modern elements.Born in Nagyszeben, Transylvania , he and his family settled in Győr in 1921; Borsos and his wife lived in the same Győr house until the end of World War II.He became interested...
(1906–1990) - François Joseph BosioFrançois Joseph BosioBaron François Joseph Bosio was a French sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy.-Biography:...
(1769–1845) - Orfeo BoselliOrfeo BoselliOrfeo Boselli was an Italian sculptor working in Rome. As with most Roman sculptors of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, a great part of his commissioned work was in restoring and completing fragmentary ancient Roman sculptures...
(1597–1667) - Antoine BourdelleAntoine BourdelleAntoine Bourdelle , originally Émile Antoine Bourdelle, was an influential and prolific French sculptor, painter, and teacher.-Career:...
(1861–1929) - Louise BourgeoisLouise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...
(1911–2010) - Joseph BeuysJoseph BeuysJoseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social...
(1921-1986) - Deveren BowmanDeveren BowmanDeveren Bowman, MA, ARBS, is a sculptor.She was born in Illinois, USA in 1957. Educated at Interlochen Arts Academy; Sarah Lawrence College; Philadelphia College of Art; Montana State University; The College of Santa Fe; Cambridge Summer school; Slade School of Art and City & Guilds of London Art...
(1957– ) - Constantin BrâncuşiConstantin BrancusiConstantin Brâncuşi was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
(1876–1957) - Georges BraqueGeorges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...
(1882–1963) - Arno BrekerArno BrekerArno Breker was a German sculptor, best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, which were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art....
(1900–1991) - Art BrennerArt BrennerArt Brenner is an American abstract sculptor and painter who has lived and worked in Paris since 1964.He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Paris, London, Avignon, Barcelona, Brussels, Brest, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Montreal, and Adelaide, Australia.His work is in public...
(1924– ) - John BridgemanJohn Bridgeman (sculptor)Arthur John Bridgeman ARCA, FRBS, FRBSA was an English sculptor.-Early life:Born in Felixstowe, Suffolk and named Arthur John, he was usually called 'Bridge' by his friends and signed himself John Bridgeman...
(1916–2004) - Laurence BroderickLaurence BroderickLaurence Broderick, ARBS, FRSA, is a British sculptor. His best known work is The Bull, a public sculpture in Birmingham, erected in 2003. His work consists largely of direct carvings in stone and editions in bronze, mostly figurative, wildlife and the female form...
(1935– ) - Sean K. L. BrowneSean K. L. BrowneSean Kekamakupaa Lee Loy Browne is a contemporary sculptor who was born in Hilo, Hawaii. He attended the Kamehameha Schools and then earned a BA in studio art from the University of Redlands in 1975. In 1981, he studied marble carving under Paoli Silverio in Pietrasanta, Italy and was later...
(1953– ), American - Filippo BrunelleschiFilippo BrunelleschiFilippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...
(1377–1446) - Emilie Benes BrzezinskiEmilie Benes BrzezinskiEmilie Benes Brzezinski, born Emilie Anna Benes in 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland, is an American sculptor.-Education and career:Emilie Benes earned a fine arts degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States...
(1932– ) - Caspar BuberlCaspar BuberlCaspar Buberl was an American sculptor. He is best known for his Civil War monuments, for the terra cotta relief panels on the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio , and for the -long frieze on the Pension Building in Washington, D.C..-Biography:Born in Königsberg, Bohemia, Caspar Buberl (1834 –...
(1834–1899) - John BuckleyJohn Buckley (sculptor)John Buckley, born in Leeds in 1945, is a sculptor whose best known work is the sculpture "Untitled 1986", better known as "the Shark House" or the "Headington Shark" in Headington, Oxford....
(1945– ) - Rembrandt BugattiRembrandt BugattiRembrandt Bugatti was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects.- Early life :...
(1884–1916) - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)
- James BurkeJames Burke (artist)James Burke is a British, London based visual artist.Through painting, digital media, sculpture and installation he addresses various ideas of cultural and social systems of belief and ideology. Sourcing ideas and imagery from popular cultural and media references - new-religion, authoritarian...
(1983– ), British - Scott BurtonScott BurtonScott Burton was an American sculptor and performance artist best known for his large-scale furniture sculptures in granite and bronze.-Early years:...
(1939–1989) - Diarmuid Byron O'Connor (1964– )
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- Alexander CalderAlexander CalderAlexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.-Childhood:Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton,...
(1898–1976) - Alexander Milne CalderAlexander Milne CalderAlexander Milne Calder was an American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandson, Alexander "Sandy" Calder, were to become significant sculptors in the 20th century.-Biography:Alexander Milne Calder was...
(1845–1923) - Alexander Stirling CalderAlexander Stirling CalderAlexander Stirling Calder was an American sculptor and teacher; son of the sculptor Alexander Milne Calder, and father of the sculptor Alexander Calder...
(1870–1945) - Antonio CanovaAntonio CanovaAntonio Canova was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh...
(1757–1822) - Samuel CashwanSamuel CashwanSamuel Adolph Cashwan was an American sculptor.- History :Cashwan was born to Jewish parents in Cherkasy, Ukraine, Russian Empire. His parents left Russia and emigrated to New York City in 1906. Cashwan began his art studies after the family moved to Detroit in 1916. His first exposure came from...
(1900-1988) - Agustin CárdenasAgustín Cárdenasthumb|250px| Without Title , sculpture by Auguste Cardenas in the area above the Roman quarry in [[Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland]] near [[Lake Neusiedl]]....
(1927–2001) - Ludovico Cardi (also known as Cigoli) (1559–1613)
- John Edward CarewJohn Edward CarewJohn Edward Carew was a notable Irish sculptor during the 19th century. His most prominent work is the Death of Nelson - one of the four bronze panels on the pedestal of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.-Life:...
(1785–1868) - Norman CarlbergNorman CarlbergNorman Carlberg is an American sculptor and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style....
(1928– ) - Agostino CarliniAgostino CarliniAgostino Carlini was an Italian sculptor and painter, who was born in Genoa but settled in England.He was also one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768...
(1718–1790) - Anthony CaroAnthony CaroSir Anthony Alfred Caro, OM, CBE is an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.-Background and early life:...
(1924– ) - Jean-Baptiste CarpeauxJean-Baptiste CarpeauxJean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter.Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of...
(1827–1875) - Benedict CarpenterBenedict CarpenterBenedict Carpenter is a British sculptor and artist based in the West Midlands.He works in traditional materials such as bronze, mild steel, as well as more modern substances such as polyurethane foam, bread, rubber and spray paint....
(1975– ) - Pierre CartellierPierre CartellierPierre Cartellier was a French sculptor.Born in Paris, he studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris and then in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan before attending the Académie Royale. During the French Revolution Cartellier was part of a team of sculptors who worked on the church of Ste...
(1757–1831) - Machado de Castro (1731–1822)
- Bartolomeo CavaceppiBartolomeo CavaceppiBartolomeo Cavaceppi was an Italian sculptor who worked in Rome, where he trained in the studio of the acclimatized Frenchman, Pierre-Étienne Monnot, and then in the workshop of Carlo Antonio Napolioni, a restorer of sculptures for Cardinal Alessandro Albani, who was to become a major patron of...
(ca. 1716–1799) - John CederquistJohn CederquistJohn Carl Cederquist is an American sculptor in wood and builder of studio furniture who was born in Altadena, California...
(1946– ) - Benvenuto CelliniBenvenuto CelliniBenvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician, who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism.-Youth:...
(1500–1571) - Rene Paul ChambellanRene Paul ChambellanRene Paul Chambellan was an American sculptor, born in West Hoboken, New Jersey.Chambellan studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris and with Solon Borglum in New York City. Chambellan specialized in architectural sculpture...
(1893–1955) - Elisabeth Gordon ChandlerElisabeth Gordon ChandlerElisabeth Gordon Chandler was an American sculptor and educator, and the founder of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts.-Life and work:...
(1913–2006) - Sir Francis Legatt ChantreyFrancis Legatt ChantreySir Francis Legatt Chantrey was an English sculptor of the Georgian era. He left the Chantrey Bequest or Chantrey Fund for the purchase of works of art for the nation, which was available from 1878 after the death of his widow.-Life:Francis Leggatt Chantrey was born at Norton near Sheffield ,...
(1781–1841) - Antoine-Denis ChaudetAntoine-Denis ChaudetAntoine-Denis Chaudet was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.-Works:*Joseph Sold by his Brothers Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.-Works:*Joseph Sold by his Brothers Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) was a French sculptor...
(1763–1810) - Sir Henry Cheere (1703–1781)
- John CheereJohn CheereJohn Cheere was an English sculptor, born in London. Brother of the sculptor Sir Henry Cheere, he was originally apprenticed as a haberdasher from 1725 to 1732.-Life:...
(1709–1787) - Michael Chemiakin (1908–1970)
- Eduardo ChillidaEduardo ChillidaEduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in Basque, was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his monumental abstract works.-Early life and career:...
(1924–2002) - Joseph ChinardJoseph ChinardJoseph Chinard was a French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style that was infused with naturalism and sentiment....
(1756–1813) - Anna ChromyAnna ChromyAnna Chromy is a painter and sculptor. Born in Bohemia , she was raised in Austria, lives in France and works in Italy. She is said to be a quintessential European....
(1940– ) - Caius Gabriel CibberCaius Gabriel CibberCaius Gabriel Cibber was a Danish sculptor, who enjoyed great success in England, and was the father of the actor, author and poet laureate Colley Cibber. He was appointed "carver to the king's closet" by William III....
(1630-1700) - John ClagueJohn ClagueJohn Clague was an American artist and sculptor.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, John Clague studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1956 under Edris Eckhardt, Walter Sinz, Walter Midner, John Bergschneider, Julius Schmidt, and William McVey...
(1928–2004) - Camille ClaudelCamille ClaudelCamille Claudel was a French sculptor and graphic artist. She was the elder sister of the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel.- Early years :...
(1864–1943) - Clodion (1738–1814)
- Jon CoffeltJon CoffeltJohnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
(1963– ) - John ConnellJohn ConnellJohn Connell was a contemporary American artist. His works included sculpture, painting, drawing, and writing....
(1940–2009) - John S. ConwayJohn S. Conway (artist)John S. Conway, an artist and sculptor, was born February 21, 1852 in Dayton, Ohio. His middle name is listed differently in different sources as Severinus, Severine and Severino. He received his artistic training at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Ecole Julien, and at the École des Beaux-Arts....
(1852–1925) - Christian Cardell CorbetChristian Cardell CorbetChristian Cardell Corbet is a Canadian sculptor, painter and designer. He co-founded and was first President of the Canadian Portrait Academy.- Quotes :...
(1966-) - Christine CordayChristine CordayChristine Corday is a North American Artist. Corday studied graphic and fine arts as well as the sciences which led to an Astrophysics internship in 1991 with SETI Principal Investigator Dr.Laurance Doyle at NASA Ames Research Center. In 1993, Corday worked for advertising and design agencies as...
(1970 –) - Guillaume Coustou the ElderGuillaume Coustou the ElderGuillaume Coustou the Elder was a French sculptor and academician. Coustou was the younger brother of French sculptor Nicolas Coustou and the pupil of his mother's brother, Antoine Coysevox...
(1677–1746) - Guillaume Coustou the YoungerGuillaume Coustou the YoungerGuillaume Coustou the Younger was a French sculptor.The son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou, he trained in the family atelier and studied at the French Academy in Rome, 1736–39, as winner of the Prix de Rome...
(1716–1777) - Nicolas CoustouNicolas CoustouNicolas Coustou was a French sculptor and academic.Born in Lyon, Coustou was the son of a woodcarver, who gave him his first instruction in art. At eighteen he moved to Paris, to study under C.A...
(1658–1733) - Antoine CoysevoxAntoine CoysevoxCharles Antoine Coysevox , French sculptor, was born at Lyon, and belonged to a family which had emigrated from Spain...
(1640–1720) - Tony CraggTony CraggTony Cragg is a British visual artist specialized in sculpture. He is currently the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.-Early life:Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949...
(1949– ) - José de CreeftJose de CreeftJosé De Creeft was a Spanish-born American sculptor and teacher.-Life and work:...
(1884–1982) - Benjamin CreswickBenjamin Creswick-Life:Benjamin Creswick was born in Sheffield, the son of a spectacle-maker. He started his working life as a knife-grinder, but took up sculpture with the encouragement of John Ruskin. In 1887 he modelled a terracotta frieze showing the processes of knife-grinding for the exterior of Cutlers'...
(1853–1946) - Cornelius CureCornelius CureCornelius Cure was an English-born sculptor of Dutch parentage, being the son of the sculptor, William Cure I.Cure lived and worked in Southwark in Surrey . He held the office of Master Mason to both Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, originally jointly with his father...
(died 1607) - Marianne CsakyMarianne CsakyMarianne Csaky is a Hungarian writer and sculptor. Trained in arts as well as ethnography and philosophy, she started to exhibit her work in Budapest in 1989. Since the very start of her career Csáky has been known for her non-mainstream forms of expression, her unconventional and provocative...
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- Anne Seymour DamerAnne Seymour DamerAnne Seymour Damer, née Conway, was an English sculptor.-Life:Anne Conway was born into an aristocratic Whig family, the only daughter of Field-Marshal Henry Seymour Conway and his wife Caroline Bruce, born Campbell, Lady Ailesbury , and was brought up at the family home at Park Place, Remenham,...
(1749–1828) - Jules DalouJules DalouAimé-Jules Dalou was a French sculptor, recognized as one of the most brilliant virtuosos of nineteenth-century France, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.-Life:...
(1838–1902) - David d'Angers (1788–1856)
- Grenville DaveyGrenville DaveyGrenville Davey is an English sculptor and winner of the 1992 Turner Prize.He is a professor of the University of East London school of Architecture and the Visual Arts...
(1961– ) - José Maria David (1944– )
- Anne DavidsonAnne DavidsonAnne Ross Davidson, DA was a noted Scottish sculptor and artist. Many of her commissioned works are on public view in Scotland and abroad.-Early years:...
(1937–2008), Scottish - Charles DaudelinCharles DaudelinCharles Daudelin, was a Canadian sculptor and painter, a major Quebec artist.Born in Granby, Quebec, he became a pioneer in integrating art into public space...
(1920–2001) - Richard Deacon (1949– )
- John De Andrea (1941– )
- Charles DegeorgeCharles DegeorgeCharles Jean Marie Degeorge was a French sculptor whose best-known work, La jeunesse d'Aristote depicts the philosopher as a semi-nude teenage boy sitting in a large chair, looking bored as he studies a scroll...
(1837–1888) - Martin DesjardinsMartin DesjardinsMartin Desjardins, born Martin van den Bogaert was a French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth.He was born at Breda, the son of a milliner in a house that would later carry the name 'de Drye Bredasche Hoeden'...
(1637–1694) - Laurent DelvauxLaurent DelvauxLaurent Delvaux was a prolific Belgian sculptor.-Life:Delvaux was born in Ghent. In Brussels he was a student of Denis Plumier from Antwerp, he followed Plumier to London in 1719 and collaborated with him on the funerary monument of John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham...
(1695–1778) - Charles DespiauCharles DespiauCharles Despiau was a French sculptor.Despiau was born at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes and attended first the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and later the Ecole des Beaux Arts...
(1874–1946) - William Reid DickWilliam Reid DickSir William Reid, Dick was a Scottish sculptor known for his innovative stylization of form in his monument sculptures and simplicity in his portraits. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1921, and a Royal Academician in 1928. Dick served as president of the Royal Society of British...
(1879–1961) - DonatelloDonatelloDonato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi , also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence...
(1386–1466) - Gyula DonáthGyula DonáthGyula Donáth , was a Hungarian sculptor.He was born in Pest and studied in Vienna with G. Semper. From 1880 onwards he worked in Budapest. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and academic as well as the Art Nouveau styles...
(1850–1909) - Carlos DorrienCarlos DorrienCarlos Dorrien, born in 1948 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and of Mexican descent, is an American sculptor who specializes in public art installations, creating large-sized abstract sculptures in granite that are often inspired by ancient history, architecture, archaeological ruins, and human figures....
(1948– ) - Alceo DossenaAlceo DossenaAlceo Dossena was an Italian sculptor. His dealers marketed his creations as originals by other sculptors.Dossena was born in Cremona. He was a talented stonemason and sculptor who was skilled at duplicating classical Greek, Roman, medieval, and Renaissance artistic styles and such artists as...
(1878–1937) - Agostino di DuccioAgostino di DuccioAgostino di Duccio was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor.Born in Florence, he worked in Prato with Donatello and Michelozzo, who influenced him greatly. In 1441, he was accused of stealing precious materials from a monastery in Florence and was banished from his native city as a result...
(1418–1481) - Mark di SuveroMark di SuveroMarco Polo "Mark" di Suvero is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born Marco Polo Levi in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1942 with his family. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study...
–(1933– ) - Raymond Duchamp-VillonRaymond Duchamp-VillonRaymond Duchamp-Villon was a French sculptor.Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Haute-Normandie region of France, the second son of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp. Of the six Duchamp children, four would become successful artists...
(1876–1918) - Paul Dubois (1829–1905)
- Francisque Joseph DuretFrancisque Joseph DuretFrancisque Joseph Duret was a French sculptor, son and pupil of François-Joseph Duret .He also studied under Bosio, and won the Prix de Rome in 1823. In 1833 he exhibited his "Neapolitan Fisher Dancing the Tarantella", now in the Louvre, a spirited statue in bronze, which established his reputation...
(1804–65) - François-Joseph DuretFrançois-Joseph DuretFrançoise-Joseph Duret was a French sculptor. He was the father and teacher of Francisque Joseph Duret.*...
(1732–1816) - Dušan DžamonjaDušan DžamonjaDušan Džamonja was a contemporary Croatian sculptor of Macedonian origin.Džamonja's work shows a tendency towards technical and formative experiments, reducing form to the dynamic and intense shapes of symbolical meaning...
(1928–2009) - Czesław Dźwigaj (1950– )
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- Anthony EarnshawAnthony EarnshawAnthony Earnshaw was an English anarchist, artist, author, and illustrator.Earnshaw was born in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. His father, a watchmaker and jeweller, died before he was born. His mother ran the family shop until bankruptcy in 1930, when they moved first to Redcar and then to Leeds...
(1924–2001) - Jon EdgarJon EdgarJon Edgar is a British artist born in Rustington, West Sussex in 1968, the grandson of British cartoonist Brian White. He direct-carves in wood and stone using methods of improvisation, and works in clay.-Biography:...
(1968– ) - Dale EldredDale EldredDale Eldred was an internationally acclaimed sculptor renowned for large-scale sculptures that emphasized both natural and generated light.-Biography:...
(1933–1993) - Jacob EpsteinJacob EpsteinSir Jacob Epstein KBE was an American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter...
(1880–1959) - Epiphanius EveshamEpiphanius EveshamEpiphanius Evesham was a British sculptor.He was born in Wellington, Herefordshire, a twin, and the youngest of fourteen siblings! His parents were William Evesham of Burghope Hall and his wife, Jane Haworthe, daughter of Alexander Haworthe...
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- János FadruszJános FadruszJános Fadrusz was a Hungarian sculptor. He was a celebrated artist of the age with many important public commission.-Early life:...
(1858–1903) - Lukman Alade FakeyeLukman Alade FakeyeLukman Alade Fakeye is a Yoruba Nigerian sculptor and woodcarver. He is the youngest in the Fakeye family of carvers. He is a nephew of Lamidi Fakeye, who carved the doors of the African Room at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C...
(1983– ) - Akin (Akinlabi) Fakeye (1936– )
- Azeez Kayode FakeyeAzeez Kayode FakeyeAzeez Kayode Fakeye is the only son of Ganiyu Fakeye who is the brother of Lamidi Fakeye and Akin Fakeye.Azeez carried out his apprenticeship under his father Ganiyu Fakeye. Under his father's tutelage his skills grew and developed...
(1965– ) - Etienne Maurice FalconetÉtienne Maurice FalconetÉtienne Maurice Falconet is counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, whose patron was Mme de Pompadour.-Life:Falconet was born to a poor family in Paris...
(1716–1791) - Alexandre FalguièreAlexandre FalguièreJean Alexandre Joseph Falguière was a French sculptor and painter.He was born in Toulouse...
(1831–1900) - Claire FalkensteinClaire FalkensteinClaire Falkenstein was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher, most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures.-Early life and education:...
(1908–1997) - Bernd FaschingBernd FaschingBernd Fasching is an Austrian painter and sculptor. He lives and works in Vienna.- Life and work:In 2000 Fasching opened his project Westwerk in the more than 800 years old Vienna St. Stephan’s Cathedral...
(1955– ) - André FauteuxAndré FauteuxAndré Fauteux is a Canadian artist born in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada on March 15, 1946, who now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Fauteux is a sculptor known for his abstract welded steel sculpture, which relates to Geometric abstraction...
(1946– ) - Albert FéraudAlbert FéraudAlbert Féraud was a French sculptor, author of sans titre exposed at the Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air in Paris and friend off French painter Annick Gendron.-External links:...
(1921–2008) - Béni FerenczyBéni FerenczyBéni Ferenczy was a Hungarian sculptor and graphic artist.Born the son of Károly Ferenczy, he studied art in Munich and Paris where he studied with both Bourdelle and Archipenko His art became mature after he had returned from emigration in Germany and the Soviet Union.After his experiences with...
(1890–1967) - István FerenczyIstván FerenczyIstván Ferenczy was a nineteenth century Hungarian sculptor.-Artistic education:Ferenczy was born in Rimaszombat...
(1792–1856) - Helaman FergusonHelaman FergusonHelaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist.Ferguson's mother died when he was about three and his father went off to serve in the Second World War. He was adopted and raised in New York. He was a graduate of Hamilton College and received a...
(1940– ) - Carole FeuermanCarole FeuermanCarole A. Feuerman is an American artist and hyper-realistic sculptor. She currently lives and works in New York, New York. Feuerman is most known for her resin sculptures painted in oil, but she also utilizes other media such as bronze and stone...
(1945– ) - Mino da FiesoleMino da FiesoleMino da Fiesole , also known as Mino di Giovanni, was an Italian sculptor from Poppi, Tuscany. He is noted for his portrait busts.-Career:...
(ca.1429–1484) - Steve FiorillaSteve FiorillaSteve Fiorilla was an American artist born in Paterson, New Jersey, who lived and worked in Buffalo, New York. Throughout his career, Fiorilla emphasized the grotesque and surreal in illustrations, sculpture and fine art. As a sculptor, he produced a variety of bizarre, malformed creatures...
(1961– ) - John FlaxmanJohn FlaxmanJohn Flaxman was an English sculptor and draughtsman.-Early life:He was born in York. His father was also named John, after an ancestor who, according to family tradition, had fought for Parliament at the Battle of Naseby, and afterwards settled as a carrier or farmer in Buckinghamshire...
(1755–1826) - John Henry FoleyJohn Henry FoleyJohn Henry Foley , often referred to as JH Foley, was an Irish sculptor, best known for his statues of Daniel O'Connell in Dublin, and of Prince Albert in London. Both are still considered iconic in each city.-Life:...
(1818–1874) - Giovanni Battista FogginiGiovanni Battista Fogginithumb|Tomb of [[Galileo Galilei]] in [[Santa Croce, Florence]].Giovanni Battista Foggini was an Italian sculptor active in Florence, renowned mainly for small bronze statuary.-Biography:...
(1652–1737) - Peter ForakisPeter ForakisPeter Forakis was an American artist known as an abstract geometric sculptor. The son of a Greek immigrant, he grew up on the Wyoming prairie until the age of 10 when his family moved to Oakland, California. Eventually they settled in Modesto, California...
(1927–2009) - Edward Onslow FordEdward Onslow FordEdward Onslow Ford , English sculptor, was born in London. He received some education as a painter in Antwerp and as a sculptor in Munich under Professor Wagmuller, but was mainly self-taught....
(1852–1901) - Sairi ForsmanSairi ForsmanSairi Forsman is a Mexican sculptor of Danish descent.Throughout her creative process, Sairi Forsman has gone through different stages, all of them equally relevant: first, sculpture inspired by an early cubism; then entangled bodies, knot-forms with rounded outlines that tell stories about...
(1964– ), Mexican - Robert Frangeš-Mihanović (1872–1940)
- Jane FrankJane FrankJane Schenthal Frank was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist...
(Jane Schenthal Frank) (1918–1986) - James Earle Fraser (1876–1953)
- Laura Gardin FraserLaura Gardin FraserLaura Gardin Fraser was an American sculptor and the wife of sculptor James Earle Fraser.Laura Gardin studied under Fraser at the Art Students League of New York from 1910 to 1912. Alone or with her husband she designed a number of U.S...
(1889–1966) - Edward J. FraughtonEdward J. FraughtonEdward J. Fraughton , American artist, sculptor and inventor is primarily known for his epic monumental works and individual collector editions that often relate to the history of the American West. Fraughton's stylistic goals follow the American Neo-classic/Beaux-Arts, impressionistic realism...
(1939– ) - Marshall FredericksMarshall FredericksMarshall Maynard Fredericks was an American sculptor.-Biography:Fredericks was born of Scandinavian heritage in Rock Island, Illinois on January 31, 1908. His family moved to Florida for a short time and then settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up...
(1908–1998) - Emmanuel FrémietEmmanuel FrémietEmmanuel Frémiet was a French sculptor. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez....
(1824–1910) - Tom FriedmanTom Friedman (artist)Tom Friedman American conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugar cubes in intricate geometric arrangements. Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Washington University in St. Louis, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic...
(1965– ) - Daniel Chester FrenchDaniel Chester FrenchDaniel Chester French was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Life and career:...
(1850–1931) - Elisabeth FrinkElisabeth FrinkDame Elisabeth Jean Frink, DBE, CH, RA was an English sculptor and printmaker...
(1930–1993) - Zenos FrudakisZenos FrudakisZenos Frudakis is a figurative sculptor whose subjects include portraits of living and historical individuals and poetic/philosophical sculpture with a post-modern sensibility. He lives and works near Philadelphia...
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- Naum GaboNaum GaboNaum Gabo KBE, born Naum Neemia Pevsner was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art.-Early life:...
(1890–1977) - Jim GaryJim GaryJim Gary was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts...
(1939–2006) - Henri Gaudier-BrzeskaHenri Gaudier-BrzeskaHenri Gaudier-Brzeska was a French sculptor who developed a rough hewn, primitive style of direct carving....
(1891–1915) - Vincenzo GemitoVincenzo GemitoVincenzo Gemito was an Italian sculptor and artist.Although he worked in various studios of well known artists in his native Naples, Rome and Paris, he is considered to have largely been self-taught, the reason he produced such distinctive works for that time, replacing sentiment with outstanding...
(1852–1929) - Tommaso GeraciTommaso GeraciTommaso Geraci is an Italian sculptor.Born in Sclafani Bagni, Sicily, Geraci graduated from the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, Netherlands in fine arts and sculpture, spending a year of his studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy.He currently lives and works in the...
(1931– ) - Nikolaus GerhaertNikolaus GerhaertNikolaus Gerhaert , also known as Nikolaus Gerhaert von Leyden, was a sculptor of Dutch origin, although aside from his sculptures, few details are known of his life.- Biography :...
(active ca. 1460–1473) - Lorenzo GhibertiLorenzo GhibertiLorenzo Ghiberti , born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking.-Early life:...
(1378–1455) - Alberto GiacomettiAlberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter...
(1901–1966) - GiambolognaGiambolognaGiambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, incorrectly known as Giovanni da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna , was a sculptor, known for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style.- Biography :...
(1529–1608) - Grinling GibbonsGrinling GibbonsGrinling Gibbons was an English sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including St Paul's Cathedral, Blenheim Palace and Hampton Court Palace. He was born and educated in Holland where his father was a merchant...
(1648–1721) - John GibsonJohn Gibson (sculptor)John Gibson, was a Welsh sculptor.-Early life:He was born near Conwy, Wales, his father being a market gardener. To his mother, whom he described as ruling his father and all the family, he owed the energy and determination which carried him over every obstacle.When he was nine years old the...
(1790–1866) - Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore (1943–/ 1942– )
- Alfred GilbertAlfred GilbertSir Alfred Gilbert was an English sculptor and goldsmith who enthusiastically experimented with metallurgical innovations...
(1854–1934) - Eric GillEric GillArthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement...
(1882–1940) - Ernest GillickErnest GillickErnest Gillick was a British sculptor.Gillick studied at the Nottingham School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. His first important commission was for the figures of J.M.W...
(1874–1951) - François GirardonFrançois GirardonFrançois Girardon was a French sculptor.He was born at Troyes. As a boy he had for master a joiner and wood-carver of his native town, named Baudesson, under whom he is said to have worked at the chateau of Liebault, where he attracted the notice of Chancellor Séguier...
(1628–1715) - Cyprian GodebskiCyprian Godebski (sculptor)Cyprian Godebski was a Polish sculptor and from 1870 a professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg...
(1835–1909) - Andy GoldsworthyAndy GoldsworthyAndy Goldsworthy, OBE is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.-Life and career:The son of F...
(1956– ) - Anna GolubkinaAnna GolubkinaAnna Semyonovna Golubkina was a Russian impressionist sculptor. As the first Russian sculptor to receive the Paris Salon prize, she is regarded as the first female Russian sculptor of note. Golubkina also had an exhibition at the prestigious Alexander III Museum...
(1864–1927) - Antony GormleyAntony GormleyAntony Mark David Gormley OBE RA is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site...
(1950– ) - Józef Gosławski (1908–1963)
- Thomas R. GouldThomas R. GouldThomas Ridgeway Gould was an American sculptor active in Boston and Florence.-Biography:Gould was born in Boston. He was at first a merchant with his brother in the dry-goods business, but studied sculpture under Seth Wells Cheney starting in 1851 and in 1863 exhibited two large heads of Christ...
(1818–1881) - Michel GouletMichel Goulet (sculptor)Michel Goulet is a Canadian sculptor.Since 1987 he is professor at Université du Québec à Montréal.- Honours :*1990: Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas*1994: Quebec Theatre Critic's Association prize for best scenography...
(1944– ), Canadian - Robert GrahamRobert Graham (sculptor)Robert Graham was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America.-Biography:...
(1938– ) - Pierre GranchePierre GranchePierre Granche was a French-Canadian sculptor.Having studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and the Université de Vincennes in Paris, he taught in the art history department of the Université de Montréal for more than twenty years until his death in Montreal.As a sculptor, his works are...
(1948–1997) - Paul GranlundPaul GranlundPaul T. Granlund was an American sculptor. His creative career spanned more than 50 years and more than 650 different works. Most of his work is figurative and made from bronze...
(1925–2003) - Georges Grard (1901–1984)
- Nancy GravesNancy GravesNancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon...
(1939–1995) - Bruce GrayBruce Gray (sculptor)Sculptor Bruce Gray is an artist residing in Los Angeles. His work includes kinetic art such as rolling ball machines, mobiles, stabiles, and suspended magnetic sculptures...
(1956– ) - Horatio GreenoughHoratio GreenoughHoratio Greenough was an American sculptor best known for his United States government commissions The Rescue and George Washington .-Biography:...
(1805–1852) - John GregoryJohn Gregory (sculptor)-Life:When he was about 12 years old his family immigrated to the United States where he began is sculptural studies at the Art Students League in New York City. He continued these at both the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the American Academy in Rome. At various times he studied with J...
, (1879–1958) - Giuseppe GrisoniGiuseppe GrisoniGiuseppe Pierre Joseph Grisoni , also known as Grifoni or Grison, was an Italian painter and sculptor, noted for his landscapes and historical tableaux....
(1699–1796) - Catrin G GrosseCatrin G GrosseCatrin G Grosse , also known as Catrin Große, is a German painter, graphic designer and sculptor.- Career :Catrin G Grosse began at 16 years of age with an evening class in painting and graphic design in Cottbus at Uli Richter, Hans Scheuerecker und Dietrich Brüning, while obtaining her...
(1964-) - Amin GulgeeAmin GulgeeAmin Gulgee Urdu:امین گلجی is a Pakistani metal sculptor, the son of Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee. His Web site lists his inspirations as Pakistan's spiritual history, Hindu mythology, Buddhist civilization and Islamic calligraphy. "I work in order to understand myself...
(1966– ) - Don Gummer (1946– )
- Gunnfríður JónsdóttirGunnfríður JónsdóttirGunnfríður Jónsdóttir was an Icelandic sculptor born in the North West of Iceland on December 26, 1889. She died in 1968.-Family:Gunnfríður's grandfather was Einar Andrésson, a rhymester who had been suspected of witchcraft...
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- Gabriela von HabsburgGabriela von HabsburgGabriela von Habsburg, , also known as Archduchess Gabriela of Austria, is the Ambassador of Georgia to Germany since 2009. She is best known as the granddaughter of Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria...
(1956– ) - Ernst Julius HaehnelErnst Julius Hähnelthumb|Ernst HähnelErnst Julius Hähnel was a German sculptor.-Biography:He studied architecture under Rietschel in Dresden, and under Schwanthaler in Munich, and sculpture at Rome and Florence. In 1835 he went to Munich, and in 1848 became professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts...
(1811–1891) - Emanuel HahnEmanuel HahnEmanuel Otto Hahn was a German-born Canadian sculptor and coin designer. He taught and later married Elizabeth Wyn Wood. He co-founded and was the first president of the Sculptors' Society of Canada....
(1881-1957) - Nigel HallNigel Hall (sculptor)Nigel Hall is an English sculptor and a draughtsman.- Life :Nigel Hall's grandfather was a stonemason working on churches and cathedrals...
(1943– ) - Maggi HamblingMaggi HamblingMaggi Hambling CBE is an English painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best known public works are a memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten...
(1945– ) - Han Sai PorHan Sai PorHan Sai Por is a Singaporean sculptor. A graduate of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts , East Ham College of Art, Wolverhampton College of Art and Lincoln University, New Zealand, she worked as a teacher and later as a part-time lecturer at NAFA, the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, and the...
(1943– ) - Duane HansonDuane HansonDuane Hanson was an American artist based in South Florida but born in Minnesota, a sculptor known for his lifecast realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fibreglass, Bondo and bronze...
(1925–1996) - Tetsuo HaradaTetsuo Haradais a Japanese artist based in France, well-known for his monumental direct carving sculptures on granite and marble. In the nineties he came to public recognition with his "Earth Weaving" theme, binding nations in fraternity with granite rings...
(1949– ) - Jerry HarrisJerry HarrisJerry Harris is an African American abstract sculptor, collagist and writer. Harris is primarily a constructivist sculptor, working in media such as wood, stone, bronze, fiberglass, clay, metal, mixed media , and collage.After graduating from high school in Pittsburgh, he spent a year in Portland,...
(1945– ) - Frederick HartFrederick Hart (sculptor)Frederick Elliott Hart was an American sculptor, best known for his public monuments and works of art in bronze, marble, and clear acrylic .-Biography:American master sculptor Frederick Hart is recognized for creating work that is at once traditional in its...
(1943–1999) - Viktor HartmannViktor HartmannViktor Alexandrovich Hartmann was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamontov, and the Russian Revival.-Life:Victor-Edouard Hartmann was born in St...
(1834–1873) - Per HasselbergPer HasselbergPer Hasselberg was a Swedish sculptor. He was also known as Petter Hasselberg or Petter Åkesson. Little known outside Sweden, his delicate marble nudes have received critical acclaim. Hasselberg grew up in Blekinge, but moved to Paris as a young man, where he studied under François Jouffroy...
(1850–1894) - Herbert HaseltineHerbert HaseltineHerbert Chevalier Haseltine was an Italian-born French/American animalier sculptor, most known as an Equestrian sculptor.-Early life and education:...
(1877–1962) - Joseph HavelJoseph HavelJoseph Havel is a modernist American sculptor who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship in 1987 and a Louis Comfort Tiffany...
(1954– ), American - Benjamin Waterhouse HawkinsBenjamin Waterhouse HawkinsBenjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was an English sculptor and natural history artist renowned for combining both in his work on the life-size models of dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, south London...
(1807–1889) - Hans HedbergHans HedbergHans Hedberg was a Swedish sculptor who resided in Biot in southern France until his death. Born in Köpmanholmen, Örnsköldsvik Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden, he was mostly known for his gigantic ceramic fruit and has installations in several countries, especially in his native Sweden...
(1917–2007) - Barbara HepworthBarbara HepworthDame Barbara Hepworth DBE was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism, and with such contemporaries as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo she helped to develop modern art in Britain.-Life and work:Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield,...
(1903–1975) - Ernst Herter (1846–1917)
- Eva HesseEva HesseEva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...
(1936–1970) - Peter HidePeter HidePeter Hide is an English born abstract sculptor. A one-time pupil of Sir Anthony Caro, Hide is best known for upright, large-scale welded sculptures made of heavy, rusted industrial scrap steel....
(1944– ) - Helena HietanenHelena HietanenHelena Hietanen lives and works Helsinki, Finland. Education: University of Art and Design Helsinki.Exhibitions:#Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland 1996#Illuminazione, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1997...
(1963– ) - Prince HoarePrince Hoare (elder)Prince Hoare was an English sculptor. "Prince" is a given name, not a royal title.Possibly born near Eye, Suffolk, brother of William Hoare, he trained under Peter Scheemakers in London. He subsequently settled in Bath with his brother but spent much of the 1740s in Italy...
(1711–1769) - Rayner HoffRayner HoffRayner Hoff was a sculptor who worked in Australia.Born on the Isle of Man, Hoff was the son of a stone and wood carver of Dutch descent. He began helping his father on architectural commissions at a very young age and briefly attended the Nottingham School of Art where he studied drawing, design,...
(1894–1937) - Malvina HoffmanMalvina HoffmanMalvina Hoffman , was an American sculptor and author, well known for her life-size bronze sculptures of people...
(1885–1966) - John HoganJohn Hogan (sculptor)John Hogan was one of Ireland's greatest sculptors.Hogan was born on October 14, 1800 in Tallow, Co. Waterford, spent his youth in the city of Cork, Ireland and, in 1812, was placed as clerk to an attorney. Disliking this occupation, he chose to be apprenticed to the architect Sir Thomas Deane,...
(1800–1858) - Elizabeth Bradford HolbrookElizabeth Bradford HolbrookElizabeth Bradford Holbrook, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian portrait sculptor, medal designer and liturgical artist...
(1913–2009) - Donal HordDonal HordDonal Hord , an American sculptor, was born Donald Horr in Prentice, Wisconsin. His parents divorced when he was about 6 years old; and around that time his mother changed his name, taking the second "d" from "Donald" and substituting it for the second "r" in "Horr", thus creating the name Donal...
(1902–1966) - Milton HornMilton HornMilton Horn is a Russian American sculptor and artist known for work that, according to a 1957 citation of honor from the American Institute of Architects, demonstrated "the truth that architecture and sculpture are not two separate arts but, in the hands of sympathetic collaborators, one and the...
(1906–1995) - János HorvayJános HorvayJános Horvay was a Hungarian sculptor, who earned reputation with his statues about Lajos Kossuth, leader of the Hungarian national uprising in 1848-49. However his most important work, the great Kossuth Memorial in Budapest proved to be a failure.Horvay was born on 29 May 1873 in Pécs...
(1873–1944) - Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908)
- Jean Antoine Houdon (1741–1828)
- Youssef HowayekYoussef HowayekYoussef Saadallah Howayek a painter and sculptor from Helta, in modern day Lebanon.-Career:Youssef Farroukh's father, Saadallah Howayek, was a Councillor elected into the Ottoman Mutasarref's Administrative Council. His grandfather was the village priest and his uncle was the Patriarch...
(1883–1962) - Robert H. HudsonRobert H. HudsonRobert Hudson is an American artist who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Richland, Washington. He received a B.F.A in 1961 and an M.F.A. in 1963, both from the San Francisco Art Institute....
(1938– ) - Anita HuffingtonAnita HuffingtonAnita Huffington is an American sculptor who is noted for her stone and Bronze representation of the female torso.-Biography:...
(1934– ) - Richard HuntRichard Hunt (sculptor)Richard Hunt is an internationally renowned sculptor.He was born in 1935 on Chicago's South Side. From an early age he was interested in the arts, as his mother was an artist. As a young boy, Hunt began to show enthusiasm and talent in artistic disciplines such as drawing and painting, and also...
(1935– ) - Allen HutchinsonAllen HutchinsonAllen Hutchinson was an English sculptor.Hutchinsono was born in Staffordshire, England. He trained in London under Edouard Lanteri. He traveled to Canada and California in 1886. In 1888, he moved to Hawaii, where he modeled busts of King Kalākaua, Robert Louis Stevenson, and president of the...
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- Idel IancheleviciIdel IancheleviciIdel Ianchelevici was a Russian-born Romanian and Belgian sculptor and draughtsman.-Life:Born to Jewish parents in Leova, Bessarabia, he left Romania for Belgium in 1928 to devote himself entirely to his passion for sculpture and drawing...
(1909–1994) - René IchéRené IchéFor the town in Morocco see Iche, MoroccoRené Iché was a 20th century French sculptor.-Life and work:...
(1897–1954) - Antonin IdracAntonin IdracJean-Antoine-Marie "Antonin" Idrac was a French sculptor.A pupil of Falguière, his works include:*Salammbô / Eve and the Serpent, based on the novel Salammbô*Cupid Stung...
(1849–1884) - Leiko IkemuraLeiko Ikemurais a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.-Biography:Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980...
(1951– ) - Robert IrwinRobert Irwin (artist)Robert Irwin is an American Installation artist. He lives and works in San Diego, California.-Beginnings:Robert Irwin was born in 1928 in Long Beach, California to Robert Irwin and Goldie Anderberg Irwin...
(1932– ) - Pamela IrvingPamela IrvingPamela Irving is a prominent Australian Visual artist specialising in bronze, ceramic and mosaic sculptures as well as printmaking and copper etchings...
(1960– ) - Ismail Fatah Al TurkIsmail Fatah Al TurkIsmail Fatah Al-Turk was an Iraqi painter and sculptor from Basra, Iraq.He received degrees in painting and sculpture from the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts and a degree in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome....
(1934–2004) - Chauncey IvesChauncey IvesChauncey Bradley Ives was a prolific American sculptor who worked primarily in the Neo-classic style. His best known works are the marble statues of Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman enshrined in the National Statuary Hall Collection.-Early years:Ives was born in Hamden, Connecticut and at the...
(1810–1894) - Miklós IzsóMiklós IzsóMiklós Izsó - May 29, 1875, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and academic style.Izsó studied at the College in Sárospatak from 1840. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848...
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- Robert JacobsenRobert JacobsenRobert Julius Tommy Jacobsen was a Danish sculptor and painter. The Danish Robert award was named after him.-Biography:...
(1912–1993) - Mark JenkinsMark JenkinsMark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. In addition to creating art, he also teaches his sculpture techniques through workshops in cities he visits...
(1970– ) - Carl Paul Jennewein (1890–1978)
- Adelaide JohnsonAdelaide JohnsonAdelaide Johnson was an American sculptor whose work is displayed in the U.S. Capitol and a feminist who was devoted to the cause for equality of women....
(1859–1955) - Jacobine JonesJacobine JonesPhyllis Jacobine Jones was a sculptor. She was born in England, but migrated to Canada in 1933.- Life :Jones traveled around Denmark and Italy with her mother for years until, at 28, she studied casting, carving, and modeling at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London...
(1897–1976) - Peter Clodt von JürgensburgPeter Clodt von JürgensburgBaron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, known in Russian as Pyotr Karlovich Klodt , was a favourite sculptor of Nicholas I of Russia.Stemming from a distinguished family of Baltic Germans, Clodt von Jürgensburg, Klodt started his career as a professional artillery officer and amateur sculptor...
(1805–1867) - J. Seward Johnson, Jr. (1930– )
- Sargent Johnson (1886–1967)
- Adrian JonesAdrian JonesAdrian Jones was an English sculptor and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses. He was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, attending the grammar school there, and initially studied at the Royal Veterinary College; he subsequently joined the army as a veterinary officer, attaining the...
(1845–1938) - Allen JonesAllen Jones (sculptor)Allen Jones RA is a British pop artist, best known for his sculptures. He lives and works in London.Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art...
(1937– ) - Einar JónssonEinar JónssonEinar Jónsson was an Icelandic sculptor, born in Galtafell, a farm in southern Iceland.-Biography:...
(1874–1954) - Ríkarður JónssonRíkarður JónssonRíkarður Jónsson an Icelandic sculptor, was born on September 20, 1888 and died in 1972.-Early training:Ríkarður was born in the Icelandic east coast village of Djúpivogur. His mother was Ólöf Finnsdóttir and his father was Jón Þórarinsson. His early training was as a wood carver...
(1888–1972) - Pierre JulienPierre JulienPierre Julien was a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and neoclassical styles.He served an early apprenticeship at Le Puy-en-Velay, near his natal village of Saint-Paulien, then at the École de dessin of Lyon, then entered the Parisian atelier of Guillaume Coustou the Younger...
(1731–1804) - Donald JuddDonald JuddDonald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...
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- Kazuo KadonagaKazuo Kadonagais a contemporary Japanese sculptor. He was born in 1946 in Ishikawa, Japan. From a family that owns a cedar forest and lumber mill.Originally trained as a painter, Kadonaga soon realized that “others painted better”...
(1946– ), Japanese - Juozas KalinauskasJuozas KalinauskasJuozas Kalinauskas is a Lithuanian sculptor and medalist.-Biography:* 1950 Graduated Vistycio middle school.* 1950-1955 Studied in Stepas Zukas art school in Kaunas....
(1935– ) - Junichi KakizakiJunichi Kakizakiis a floral designer. He exhibits regularly both in Japan and internationally. Since 2006, he has mainly worked on stage decorations.-Life and career:Kakizaki was born in Nagano, Japan and has been a floral designer since 1990...
(1971– ) - Gertrude Farquharson Boyle KannoGertrude Farquharson Boyle KannoGertrude Farquharson Boyle Kanno was an American sculptor.-Biography:She was born in 1876 and married Takeshi Kanno in 1907. She died on at August 16, 1937 at St. John's Hospital.-References:...
(1876–1937), American - Anish KapoorAnish KapoorAnish Kapoor CBE RA is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai , Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice...
(1954– ) - John Kaufman (1941–2002)
- Charles KeckCharles KeckCharles Keck was an American sculptor, born in New York City. He studied in the National Academy of Design and Art Students League with Philip Martiny and was an assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens from 1893 to 1898. He also attended the American Academy in Rome. He is best known for his...
(1875–1951) - Kate KellyKate Kelly (sculptor)Kate Kelly or Katherine Kelly was an American sculptor and printmaker. She was born in California, the daughter of suffragette Hester Lambert Harland. Kate first visited Hawaii with her mother in 1898, at age 16. She studied at the Partington Art School in San Francisco, where she met the...
(1882–1964), American - Zoltán KeményZoltán KeményZoltán Kemény was a sculptor. He was the only Hungarian to win a prize at the Venice Biennale.-Popular culture:...
(1907–1965) - Starr KempfStarr KempfStarr Gideon Kempf was a sculptor, architect, and artist best known for his graceful steel wind kinetic sculptures.- Life :...
(1917–1995) - Manfred KielnhoferManfred KielnhoferManfred Kielnhofer is an Austrian painter, sculptor and Photographer.- Life :Kielnhofer visited the technical College Linz where he took his final exam in 1995. he was engaged with technique and design and art on building lead him to his special way of art. Since 2000 he lives as an free artist in...
(1967– ) - Phillip King (1934– )
- William KingWilliam King (artist)William King is a contemporary American sculptor born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1925. His work spans countless media and usually revolves around the figurative portrayal of human figures. After attending the University of Florida, King moved to New York in 1945 and graduated from Cooper Union in...
(1925–) - Rick KirbyRick KirbyRick Kirby is an English sculptor born in Gillingham, Kent.Kirby started sculpting in stone before moving to use welded steel, for which he is better known.-Notable commissions:*Formation in Ravenswood, Ipswich, 2003....
(1952– ) - Peter Klodt (1805–1867)
- Vyacheslav KlykovVyacheslav KlykovVyacheslav Mikhailovich Klykov was a Russian sculptor who specialized in public monuments to key figures of national history and culture....
(1939–2006) - Meeli KõivaMeeli KõivaMeeli Kõiva Estonia is an artist, primarily concerned with glass active in Finland, Belgium and US, where she has produced a range of paintings, architectural lighting sculptures, multimedia installations and architectural stained glass pieces.-Reviews:"Meeli Koiva is recognized worldwide as a...
(1960– ) - Käthe KollwitzKäthe KollwitzKäthe Kollwitz was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century...
(1867–1945) - Jeff KoonsJeff KoonsJeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....
(1955) - Mikhail KozlovskyMikhail KozlovskyMikhail Ivanovich Kozlovsky was a Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment....
(1753–1802) - Adam KraftAdam KraftAdam Kraft was a German stone sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period, based in Nuremberg and with a documented career there from 1490...
(1460–1509) - Frano KršinićFrano KršinićFrano Kršinić was a renowned Croatian sculptor. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Antun Augustinčić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th century...
(1897–1982) - Edward J. KuntzeEdward J. KuntzeEdward J. Kuntze was a sculptor. He received his artistic education mostly in Stockholm, Sweden, gained the Roman prize in the academy of fine arts there, and subsequently lived for many years in London, England...
(1826–1870) - Yayoi KusamaYayoi Kusamais a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation...
(1929– ) - Kyung-hee HongKyung-hee HongKyung-hee Hong in is a sculptor who was born in Seoul, South Korea. She holds an MFA degree in metal craft and teaches at the College of Fine Art and Design of Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea...
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- Eugene LancerayEugene LancerayYevgeny Yevgenyevich Lansere , also spelled Eugene Lanceray , was a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva ....
(1875–1946) - Georges Lacombe (1868–1916)
- Greer LanktonGreer LanktonGreer Lankton was an American artist, whose work was dedicated to creating life-like, posable dolls and figures. Greer Lankton was born Greg Lankton in Flint, Michigan, to a Presbyterian minister and his wife. It was during her rough childhood as a feminine boy that she began creating dolls."It...
(1958–1996) - Edouard LanteriEdouard LanteriEdouard Lanteri was a sculptor and medallist whose romantic French style of sculpting was seen as influential among exponents of New Sculpture.-Life history:...
(1848–1917) - François-Raoul LarcheFrançois-Raoul LarcheFrançois-Raoul Larche was a French Art Nouveau sculptor whose work included several figures of Christ, but who may be better known for his numerous female figures, both nude and draped....
(1860–1912) - Francesco LauranaFrancesco LauranaFrancesco Laurana, also known as Francesco de la Vrana was a Dalmatian-born sculptor and medallist. He is considered as both Croatian and Italian sculptor.-Life and works:...
(ca. 1430–before 12 March 1502) - Henri LaurensHenri LaurensHenri Laurens was a French sculptor and illustrator.-Early life and education:Born in Paris, Henri Laurens worked as a stonemason before he became a sculptor...
(1885–1954) - Billie Lawless (1950– )
- Lee LawrieLee LawrieLee Oscar Lawrie was one of the United States' foremost architectural sculptors and a key figure in the American art scene preceding World War II...
(1877–1963) - Neil Lawson BakerNeil Lawson Baker- Early life :Neil attended the Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, Middlesex as a day boy and then went on to Guy's Hospital in London where he qualified as a dental surgeon. Wishing to further his career he went on to study medicine and qualified as a doctor in 1969 at St George's Hospital at...
(1938– ), British - Robert LazzariniRobert LazzariniRobert Lazzarini is an American artist who lives and works in New York. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1995 and is included in major collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the...
(1965– ) - Jonna LeeJonna LeeJonna Lee is an American television and film actress.-Career:Born Jonna Lee Pangburn in Glendale, California, Lee graduated from John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California in 1981, After high school, she moved to Hollywood and maintained an acting career through the 1980s.In 1985, Lee...
(1963– ?) - Hippolyte LefebvreHippolyte LefèbvreHippolyte-Jules Lefèbvre was an academic French sculptor and medallist who received numerous official marks of recognition in his day but is now largely forgotten...
(1863–1935) - Pierre Le Gros the ElderPierre Le Gros the ElderPierre Le Gros the Elder was a French sculptor whose output was largely absorbed by the decoration of the château and the gardens of Versailles, often working to designs provided by Charles Le Brun and collaborating with other sculptors of the Bâtiments du Roi...
(1629–1714) - Pierre Le Gros the YoungerPierre Le Gros the YoungerPierre Le Gros was a French sculptor, active almost exclusively in Baroque Rome. Nowadays, his name is commonly written Legros, while he himself always signed as Le Gros; he is frequently referred to either as 'the Younger' or 'Pierre II' to distinguish him from his father, Pierre Le Gros the...
(1666–1719) - Wilhelm LehmbruckWilhelm LehmbruckWilhelm Lehmbruck was a German sculptor.- Biography :Born in Duisburg, he studied sculpture arts at the academy of arts in Düsseldorf and contributed to an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. From 1910–1914 he lived in Paris, where he met Modigliani, Brancusi, and Archipenko...
(1881–1919) - August LeimbachAugust LeimbachAugust Leimbach was a German-American sculptor. A native of Germany, he studied art and sculpture, and after immigrating to the United States in 1910 he worked passionately as an architectural sculptor. He eventually settled in the St.Louis area.August Leimbach is best remembered for his work with...
(1882–1965) - Antonio León OrtegaAntonio León OrtegaAntonio León Ortega, Ayamonte , December 7, 1907 - Huelva, January 9, 1991, Spanish sculptor, he had his professional education in Madrid and he created a personal style in the Andalusian imagery of the 20th century.- Biography :...
(1907–1991) - Leone LeoniLeone LeoniLeone Leoni was an Italian sculptor of international outlook who travelled in Italy, Germany, Austria, France, the Spanish Netherlands and Spain. Leoni is regarded as the finest of the Cinquecento medallists. He made his reputation in commissions he received from the Habsburg monarchs Charles V,...
(1509–1590) - Pompeo LeoniLeone LeoniLeone Leoni was an Italian sculptor of international outlook who travelled in Italy, Germany, Austria, France, the Spanish Netherlands and Spain. Leoni is regarded as the finest of the Cinquecento medallists. He made his reputation in commissions he received from the Habsburg monarchs Charles V,...
(1509–1590) - Alessandro LeopardoAlessandro LeopardoAlessandro Leopardi was a Venetian sculptor, bronze founder and architect.Leopardi was born and died at Venice. His date of birth is not known. He is first heard of in 1482 and is said to have worked at the mint...
(1512–?) - Louis LerambertLouis LerambertLouis Lerambert was a French sculptor in a numerous Parisian family of four generations of court artists who in 1637 inherited the court position caring for the Antiquities and Marbles of the King, which had become hereditary in his family...
(1620–1670) - Edmonia LewisEdmonia LewisMary Edmonia Lewis was the first African American and Native American woman to gain fame and recognition as a sculptor in the international fine arts world...
(ca. 1844–1907) - Sol LeWittSol LeWittSolomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....
(1928–2007) - Alexander LibermanAlexander LibermanAlexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.-Biography:When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow...
(1912–1999) - Allan LinderAllan LinderAllan Linder is an American artist living in New York. He is a painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He uses a variety of media, but mostly acrylic paint on canvas.- Biography :...
(1966– ) - Alain-Marcel LinseAlain-Marcel LinseAlain-Marcel Linse is a French artist born in Paris in 1956.Linse was educated in Marcelin Berthelot college and then he studied at Beaux-arts school in Paris. He moved to Brazil in 1994 and studied etching with Paulo Lisboa at Guignard University of Art of Minas Gerais .Linse is an abstract, but...
(1956– ) - Jacques LipchitzJacques LipchitzJacques Lipchitz was a Cubist sculptor.Jacques Lipchitz was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, son of a building contractor in Druskininkai, Lithuania, then within the Russian Empire...
(1891–1973) - Jessie LipscombJessie Lipscomb-Early life:Jessie was born in Grantham in 1861, the daughter of a colliery agent and a barmaid. In 1875 the family moved to Peterborough. She attended the Royal College of Art which was at that time called the National Art Training School in South Kensington...
(1861–1952) - Seymour LiptonSeymour LiptonSeymour Lipton was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist but focused on sculpture from 1932. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and...
(1903–1986) - Richard LongRichard Long (artist)Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...
(1945– ) - John Graham LoughJohn Graham LoughJohn Graham Lough was an English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture. He also produced ideal classical male and female figures.-Life:...
(1798–1876) - Bernardino LudovisiBernardino LudovisiBernardino Ludovisi , also called Bernardo, was an Italian sculptor.- Life and work :Little is known of his life. The Ludovisi were an ancient Italian family, originally from Bologna. Bernardino seems to have spent most, if not all, of his career in Rome...
(1693–1749) - Bernhard LuginbühlBernhard LuginbühlBernhard Luginbühl was one of the best known Swiss sculptors.He became famous with his iron sculptures in the late 1950s.In 1976 he started with building giant wooden sculptures which he sets on fire as an art event....
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- Frederick William MacMonniesFrederick William MacMonniesFrederick William MacMonnies was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States...
(1863–1937) - Huberto MaestasHuberto MaestasHuberto Maestas is an American sculptor living in San Luis, Colorado. His notable works include the life-sized Stations of the Cross located in San Luis, Colorado, miniatures of which are in the Vatican collection, and the statue of Padre Martinez in Taos, New Mexico...
- Benedetto da MaianoBenedetto da MaianoBenedetto da Maiano was an Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance.Born in the village of Maiano , he started his career as companion of his brother, the architect Giuliano da Maiano. When he reached the age of thirty he started training under the sculptor Antonio Rossellino...
(1442–1497) - Aristide MaillolAristide MaillolAristide Maillol or Aristides Maillol was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.-Biography:...
(1861–1944) - Terence MainTerence MainTerence Main is an American modernist sculptor who was born in 1954. He is best known for the cast metal sculptural furniture that he has been making for more than 20 years. He challenges the boundaries between sculpture and commercial design...
(1954– ), American modernist sculptor - Paul ManshipPaul ManshipPaul Howard Manship was an American sculptor.-Life:Manship began his art studies at the St. Paul School of Art in Minnesota. From there he moved to Philadelphia and continued his education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts...
(1885–1966) - Ondrej MaresOndrej MaresOndrej Mares was a Czech-Australian artist and furniture designer that lived in Macclesfield, in South Australia. His work has been exhibited in Adelaide, Sydney and Prague. Mares is most famous for his Kachina pieces. In 2002, he was diagnosed with cancer. This had the effect of moving his work...
(1949–2008) - Laurent MarquesteLaurent MarquesteLaurent-Honoré Marqueste was a French sculptor in the neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts tradition. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and of Alexandre Falguière and won the Prix de Rome in 1871. On his return he made his official debut at the Paris salon of 1874 . In 1893 he became a professor at the École...
(1848–1920) - Alexander MatveevAlexander MatveevAlexander Matveev was one of the leading Russian sculptors of his generation, working in a simple, vigorous, modern classical style similar to Aristide Maillol of France...
(1878–1960) - Marino Marini (1901–1980)
- Marcel MartíMarcel MartíMarcel Martí is an Argentine-born sculptor of Catalan descent. At the age of three, he returned with his parents to Spain, where the family became established in Barcelona. His father was imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War for activities related to his membership in Acció Catòlica. Martí...
(1925– ) - Kenneth MartinKenneth MartinKenneth Martin was an English painter and sculptor who along with his wife Mary Martin and Victor Pasmore was a leading figure in the revival of Constructivism in Britain and America in the 1940s....
(1905–1984) - Knox MartinKnox MartinKnox Martin is an American painter, sculptor and muralist.Born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of New York School - a group of artists and writers. He lives and works in New York City."Art is...
(1923– ) - Santiago Martinez DelgadoSantiago Martínez DelgadoSantiago Martínez Delgado was a Colombian painter, sculptor, art historian and writer. He established a reputation as a prominent muralist during the 1940s and is also known for his watercolors, oil paintings, illustrations and woodcarvings....
(1905–1984) - Arturo MartiniArturo MartiniArturo Martini was a leading Italian sculptor between World War I and II. He moved between a very vigorous classicism and modernism. He was associated with public sculpture in fascist Italy, but later renounced his medium altogether.-Futurism:Martini seems to have been an active supporter of the...
(1889–1947) - Ivan Petrovich Martos (1754–1835)
- Raymond Mason (1922– )
- Daphne MayoDaphne MayoDaphne Mayo MBE is a significant 20th century Australian artist, most prominently known for her work in sculpture, particularly the tympanum of Brisbane City Hall.-Early life:...
(1895–1982) - Bruce McLeanBruce McLeanBruce McLean is a Scottish performance artist and painter.McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966...
(1944– ) - Clement MeadmoreClement MeadmoreClement Meadmore was an Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures.-Biography:...
(1929–2005) - Julius T. Melchers (1829–1908)
- Antonin MerciéAntonin MerciéMarius Jean Antonin Mercié , was a French sculptor and painter.- Life :Mercié was born in Toulouse. He entered the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the Grand Prix de Rome at the age of 23...
(1845–1916) - Juan de MesaJuan de MesaJuan de Mesa y Velasco was a Spanish Baroque sculptor. He was the creator of several of the effigies that are used in the procession during the Holy Week in Seville....
(1583–1627) - Franz Xaver MesserschmidtFranz Xaver MesserschmidtFranz Xaver Messerschmidt was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.-Early years:...
(1736–1783) - Ivan MeštrovićIvan MeštrovicIvan Meštrović was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor and architect born in Vrpolje, Croatia...
(1883–1962) - Sotère MicberthSotère MicberthSotère Micberth is a French figurative sculptor who works in stone, clay, plaster, bronze and resin, born in Blois , member of the Syndicat National des Sculpteurs et Plasticiens...
(1975– ) - MichelangeloMichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
(1475–1564) - Michelozzo di BartolomeoMichelozzothumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...
(1391–1472?) - Mikhail Osipovich Mikeshin (1835–1896)
- Pavel MiksikPavel MiksikPavel Mikšík is a Slovak architect and designer working in the field of fountain design.-Biography:Pavel Mikšík was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He was introduced to fine arts in early childhood by his father. In school he excelled in both drawing and technical subjects...
(1943– ) - Carl MillesCarl MillesCarl Milles was a Swedish sculptor, best known for his fountains. He was married to artist Olga Milles and brother to Ruth Milles and half brother to the architect Evert Milles...
(1875–1955) - Clark MillsClark Mills (sculptor)Clark Mills was an American sculptor, best known for three versions of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, located in Washington, D.C., Nashville, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana.-Life:...
(1810–1883) - John W Mills (1933– )
- Joan MiróJoan MiróJoan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
(1893–1983) - Igor MitorajIgor MitorajIgor Mitoraj is a Polish artist born in Oederan, Germany.-Biography:He studied painting at the Kraków School of Art and at the Kraków Academy of Art under Tadeusz Kantor. After graduating, he had several joint exhibitions, and held his first solo exhibition in 1967 at the Krzysztofory Gallery in...
(1944– ) - Amedeo ModiglianiAmedeo ModiglianiAmedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form...
(1884–1920) - Cathy de MonchauxCathy de MonchauxCathy de Monchaux is a British sculptor.de Monchaux was born in London. She studied first at the Camberwell School of Art , and later at Goldsmiths College in London ....
(1960– ) - Hilda Grossman MorrisHilda Grossman MorrisHilda Grossman Morris was a sculptor of the Northwest School, working mainly in bronze.Morris and her husband, the Abstract Expressionist painter Carl Morris, settled in Portland, Oregon in 1941. Except for extended trips to her hometown New York City and in later years Pietrasanta, Italy to cast...
(1911–1991) - Monique MayèreMonique MayèreMonique Mayère, born in 1944, is a French sculptor and painter.- Biography :Oldest twin girl of a 8-children family with Henri, Monique was a nurse in the sixties. She also is a cousin of Philippe Bourguignon and Anne Mayère. As spouse of Jean-Claude Rodet, she had children: Emmanuel , Daniel and...
(1944– ) - Antonin MoineAntonin MoineAntonin-Marie Moine was a French romantic sculptor of the first half of the 19th century.-Biography:...
(1796–1849) - Giulio MonteverdeGiulio MonteverdeGiulio Monteverde was an Italian naturalist sculptor and teacher.-Biography:Monteverde was born in Bistagno, Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He later became a professor there...
(1837–1917) - Henry MooreHenry MooreHenry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art....
(1898–1986) - Thaddeus MosleyThaddeus MosleyThaddeus G. Mosley is a United States sculptor who works mostly in wood and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Biography:A native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Mosley enlisted in the U.S. Navy, then graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he majored in English and journalism, then...
(1926– ) - John MossmanJohn MossmanJohn Mossman was one of a number of English sculptors who dominated the production and teaching of sculpture in Glasgow for 50 years after his arrival with his father and brothers from his native London in 1828...
(1817–1890) - Hippolyte MoulinHippolyte MoulinHippolyte Alexandre Julien Moulin, sometimes given as Julien-Hippolyte Moulin or Hypolite Moulin, was a 19th-century French sculptor....
(1832–1884) - Ron MueckRon MueckRonald "Ron" Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the United Kingdom.-Early work:Ron Mueck began his career working on the Australian children's television program Shirl's Neighbourhood...
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- Reuben NakianReuben NakianReuben Nakian was an American sculptor and teacher of Armenian extraction. His recurring themes are from Greek and Roman mythology. Noted works include Leda and the Swan, The Rape of Lucrece, Hecuba, and The Birth of Venus...
(1897–1986) - Yoshitomo NaraYoshitomo Narais a Japanese artist. He currently lives and works in Tokyo, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara received his B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Between 1988 and 1993, Nara studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Germany. Nara...
(1959– ) - David NashDavid Nash (Artist)David Nash, OBE RA is a British sculptor based in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Nash has worked worldwide with wood, trees and the natural environment.-Early life:...
(1945– ) - Ernst NeizvestnyErnst NeizvestnyErnst Iosifovich Neizvestny is a Russian sculptor. He currently lives and works in New York City. His last name in Russian literally means "unknown"....
(1925– ) - Simeon NelsonSimeon NelsonSimeon Nelson is an Australian sculptor and transdisciplinary artist.Nelson was born in England in 1964 and came to Australia in 1967. Since 2001 he has lived and worked in London...
(1963– ) - Manuel NeriManuel NeriManuel Neri is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.- Biography :...
(1930– ) - Marlene Neubauer-WoernerMarlene Neubauer-WoernerMarlene Neubauer-Woerner, born Marlene Woerner , was a German sculptor. She was born in Landshut, Germany.-Life:...
(1918–2010) - Louise Nevelson (1900–1988)
- Alexander NeyAlexander NeyAlexander Ney is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1974 and has since lived and worked in New York...
(1939– ) - Paul NiclaussePaul NiclaussePaul Niclausse was a French sculptor, most famous for his art deco medals cast in bronze.He was awarded the Legion of Honor. In Paris, he taught at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and was also a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.-External...
(1879–1958) - Charles Henry NiehausCharles Henry NiehausCharles Henry Niehaus , was an American sculptor, born in Cincinnati, Ohio.-Education:Niehaus began working as a marble and wood carver and then gained entrance to the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati and later studied at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany...
(1855–1935) - Ida Göthilda NilssonIda Göthilda NilssonIda Göthilda Nilsson was a Swedish artist .Daughter of the professor and zoologist in Lund, Sven Nilsson, she was active as her father's assistant. Nilsson was also a student of the Danish artist Jacob Jerichau...
(1840–1920) - Kai NielsenKai Nielsen (sculptor)Kai Nielsen was a Danish sculptor.-Early life and education:Kai Nielsen was born on 26 November 1882 in Svendborg, the son of Christian Nielsen, a watchmaker, and his wife Ane Marie. At 15 he became an apprentice painter but was artistically inclined and began to paint landscapes and portraits...
(1882–1924) - Minoru NiizumaMinoru Niizumawas a Japanese abstract sculptor. He graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1955, and from 1954 through 1958 he exhibited with the Modern Art Association. Niizuma moved to New York in 1959, and from 1964 through 1970 he was an instructor at the Brooklyn Museum Art...
(1930–1998) - Isamu NoguchiIsamu Noguchiwas a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
(1904–1988) - Joseph NollekensJoseph NollekensJoseph Nollekens was a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century. He was also a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768.-Life:...
(1737–1823) - Max Magnus NormanMax Magnus NormanCal Henrik Max Magnus Norman is a Swedish artist, painter, and sculptor.Norman was born in Sundsvall, Medelpad, he currently lives and works in Ekerö, Stockholm. He paints visions and dreamlike images as accurately as possible, which results in paintings with a photorealistic quality...
(1973– ) - John Van Nost (died 1729)
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- Landolin OhmachtLandolin OhmachtLandolin Ohmacht was a German sculptor.Ohmacht was born in Dunningen. Among other things, he created busts of Susette Gontard and Erwin von Steinbach and a monument to Jean-Frédéric Oberlin in the Saint Thomas Church . He died in Strasbourg....
(1760–1834) - Claes OldenburgClaes OldenburgClaes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...
(1929– ) - Ezra OrionEzra OrionEzra Orion is an Israeli artist who was born in Kibbutz Beit-Alfa and grew up in Kibutz Ramat-Yohanan. He attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and from 1964 to 1967, he attended the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in...
(1934– ), Israeli - Chana OrloffChana Orloff-Biography:Chana Orloff was born in Ukraine. She immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1905 and settled in Jaffa, where she found a job as a cutter and seamstress. Zvi Nishri , the pioneer in physical education in Israel, was her brother....
(1888–1968) - Boris OrlovskyBoris OrlovskyBoris Ivanovich Orlovsky , , was a Russian sculptor.Born into a peasant family in Tula, Russia, his artistic talent led to him being freed by his master and sent to the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. After studying in Italy under Bertel Thorvaldsen, he returned to teach at the...
(1793–1837) - Daniel OstDaniel OstDaniel Ost is an artist known for his work with plants; CBS News has described him as "the world's leading flower designer," while the New York Times says that "to call him a master flower designer is akin to calling Annie Leibovitz a shutterbug."Ost's clientele includes royalty of several...
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- Dimitrie PaciureaDimitrie PaciureaDimitrie Paciurea – 14 July 1932) was a Romanian sculptor. His representational and symbolic style contrasts strongly to the more abstract style of his contemporary and co-national Constantin Brâncuşi....
(1873–1932) - Corrado ParducciCorrado ParducciCorrado Giuseppe Parducci was an Italian-American architectural sculptor who was a celebrated artist for his numerous early 20th Century works.-Early life and education:...
(1900–1981) - Richard Henry ParkRichard Henry ParkRichard Henry Park , also known as Richard Hamilton Park, was an American sculptor.Park was born in New York City an active in New York and Florence, Italy...
(1832–1902) - Harold ParkerHarold ParkerHarold Parker was a British-born sculptor, raised in Australia and subsequently working in the UK.His family moved to Brisbane, Australia in 1876 He studied at the Brisbane Technical College under John A Clarke and Godfrey Rivers, then in 1896 left for London where he studied under William Silver...
(1873–1960/62) - George PapashvilyGeorge PapashvilyGeorge Papashvily was a famous Georgian-American writer and sculptor.-Life:He was born in the village of Kobiantkari in the Kartli region of eastern Georgia. According to his autobiography, he apprenticed as a swordmaker and ornamental leatherworker...
(1898–1978) - Niki de Saint PhalleNiki de Saint PhalleNiki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès-Brandon Fal de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker.-The early years:...
(1930-2006) - Beverly PepperBeverly PepperBeverly Pepper is a pioneering sculptor known for her monumental works,site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement.- Early Life and Education :...
(1922– ) - PhidiasPhidiasPhidias or the great Pheidias , was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World...
(ca. 490 BC–ca. 430 BC) - Pablo PicassoPablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
(1881–1973) - Attilio PiccirilliAttilio PiccirilliAttilio Piccirilli was an American sculptor.Born in the province of Massa-Carrara, Italy, he was educated at the Accademia di San Luca of Rome.-Life and career:...
(1866-1945) - Furio PiccirilliFurio PiccirilliFurio Piccirilli American sculptor and one of the Piccirilli Brothers.Piccirilli was born in Massa, Italy into a family with a long tradition of carving and sculpting. Like his older brother Attilio he was educated at the Accademia di San Luca of Rome. With his brother Attilio he immigrated to...
(1869-1949) - Giovanni PisanoGiovanni PisanoGiovanni Pisano was an Italian sculptor, painter and architect. Son of the famous sculptor Nicola Pisano, he received his training in the workshop of his father....
(ca. 1250–1314) - Nicola PisanoNicola PisanoNicola Pisano was an Italian sculptor whose work is noted for its classical Roman sculptural style. Pisano is sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture.- Early life :His birth date or origins are uncertain...
(ca. 1220–1278) - Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429/33–1498)
- PolykleitosPolykleitosPolykleitos ; called the Elder, was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early 4th century BCE...
(active 5th century BC) - Don PotterDon PotterDonald Steele Potter , was an English sculptor, wood carver, potter and teacher.-Early life:Don Potter was born in Newington, near Sittingbourne, Kent, the son of a school teacher, and attended a private school...
(1902–2004) - Edward Clark PotterEdward Clark PotterEdward Clark Potter was an American sculptor best known for his equestrian and animal statues. His works include the "Fortitude" lion in front of the New York Public Library.-Early years:...
(1857–1923) - Hiram PowersHiram PowersHiram Powers was an American neoclassical sculptor.-Biography:The son of a farmer, Powers was born in Woodstock, Vermont, on the July 29, 1805. In 1818 his father moved to Ohio, about six miles from Cincinnati, where the son attended school for about a year, staying meanwhile with his brother, a...
(1805–1873) - James PradierJames PradierJames Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier was a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.-Life and work:...
(1790–1852) - Harvey PrattHarvey PrattHarvey Phillip Pratt is an American forensic artist and Native American artist, who has worked for over forty years in law enforcement, completing thousands of composite drawings and hundreds of soft tissue postmortem reconstructions. To this end, his work has assisted in thousands of arrests and...
(1941– ) - PraxitelesPraxitelesPraxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue...
(active 4th century BC) - Gary Lee PriceGary Lee PriceGary Lee Price is an American sculptor.- Biography :Price went to both grade school and high school in Montpelier, Idaho. After graduating from Montpelier High School, he went on to study at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. He then served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of...
(1943– ) - Yevgeniy ProkopovYevgeniy ProkopovYevgeniy Prokopov is a Ukrainian sculptor who was awarded the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine.-Biography:Yevgeniy was born in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union . His father, Yosyp Fedorovych Prokopov, a celebrated painter and World War II veteran, firmly believed in giving his son...
(1950– ) - Jacques ProuJacques ProuJacques Prou was a French Academic Baroque sculptor, a product of the Academy system overseen by Charles Le Brun. Trained in the Academy school in Paris,...
(1655–1706) - Pierre Puget (1622–1694)
- Brenda PutnamBrenda PutnamBrenda Putnam Noted American sculptor and author. Born into a well connected family, she was the daughter of Herbert Putnam and granddaughter of George Palmer Putnam.Her work can be seen at Syracuse University's Carnegie Library....
(1890–1975) - Patrick PyePatrick PyePatrick Pye is a sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, resident in County Dublin.Major commissions can be seen all over Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána. -External links:**...
(1929– ) - Pereira da Silva, ManuelManuel Pereira da Silvathumb|200px|Manuel Pereira da SilvaManuel Pereira da Silva was a Portuguese sculptor. He was born in Oporto, Portugal....
(1920–2003) - Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (1924–2005)
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- Jean-Etienne Ramey (1796–1852)
- Christian Daniel RauchChristian Daniel RauchChristian Daniel Rauch was a German sculptor. He founded the Berlin school of sculpture, and was the foremost German sculptor of the 19th century.-Biography:Rauch was born at Arolsen in the Principality of Waldeck...
(1777–1857) - Charles Ray (artist)Charles Ray (artist)Charles Ray is a Los Angeles-based sculptor. He is known for his strange and enigmatic sculptures that draw the viewer’s perceptual judgments into question in jarring and unexpected ways...
(1953 –) - Peter ReginatoPeter ReginatoPeter Reginato , is an American abstract sculptor.Reginato was born in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in the hills outside Oakland, California and he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. He began making abstract sculpture in 1965 and moved to New York City in 1966 to pursue his career as a sculptor...
(1945– ) - Marc RemboldMarc RemboldMarc Rembold, Swiss artist, was born in 1963 in Zurich. He developed the "Light in Colour“ concept during the 1980s. The concept was defined as living colours which they change their value with the temperature of the light. In 2000 he worked on the realisation of his series Liquids, in which...
(1963– ) - Frederic RemingtonFrederic RemingtonFrederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S...
(1861–1909) - George RennieGeorge Rennie (sculptor and politician)George Rennie was a Scottish sculptor and politician.Rennie was the son of George Rennie, agriculturist, of Phantassie, East Lothian, and nephew of John Rennie, the civil engineer....
(1801/02–1860) - Hugo RheinholdHugo RheinholdWolfgang Hugo Rheinhold was a German sculptor arguably most famous for his Affe mit Schädel . His name is often misspelled Reinhold.-Life:...
(1853–1900) - Ligier RichierLigier RichierLigier Richier was a French sculptor active in Saint-Mihiel.Richier primarily worked in the churches of his native Saint-Mihiel. From 1530, he was under the protection of Duke Antoine of Lorraine, for whom he did important work. Ligier Richier did work in wood, but preferred pale, soft limestone...
(1500–1567) - George RickeyGeorge RickeyGeorge Rickey was an American kinetic sculptor.Rickey was born on June 6, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana.-Life and work:...
(1907–2002) - Linda RidgwayLinda RidgwayLinda Ridgway is an American artist who was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1947. She earned a BFA from Louisville School of Art in Anchorage, Kentucky and an MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana....
(1947– ), American - Tilman RiemenschneiderTilman RiemenschneiderTilman Riemenschneider was a German sculptor and woodcarver active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between late Gothic and Renaissance, a master in stone and limewood.- Biography :Tilman Riemenschneider was born between 1459...
(1460–1531) - William Henry RinehartWilliam Henry RinehartWilliam Henry Rinehart was a noted American sculptor. He is considered "the last important American sculptor to work in the classical style."-Biography:...
(1825–1874) - Jose de RiveraJose de RiveraJose de Rivera was an American abstract sculptor.-Life:He grew up in New Orleans. He dropped out of high school, but finished at a boarding school. He worked on the plantation, fixing farm machinery.In 1924, he moved to Chicago.He studied drawing with muralist John W. Norton...
(1904-1985) - Giovanni della RobbiaGiovanni della Robbiathumb|250px|Saint Sebastian, [[Musée du Louvre]], Paris.Giovanni della Robbia was an Italian Renaissance ceramic artist. He was the son of Andrea della Robbia and grandnephew of Luca della Robbia....
(1469–ca.1529) - Luca della RobbiaLuca della RobbiaLuca della Robbia was an Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terra-cotta roundels.Luca Della Robbia developed a pottery glaze that made his creations more durable in the outdoors and thus suitable for use on the exterior of buildings. His work is noted for its charm rather than the drama...
(1400–1482) - Auguste RodinAuguste RodinFrançois-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...
(1840–1917) - Carlo RomanelliCarlo RomanelliCarlo Alfred Romanelli was an Italian sculptor, born in Florence, Italy August 24, 1872 and died August 9, 1947. He came to the United States in 1902, settling in Los Angeles, California. He moved to Detroit, Michigan in the early 1920s...
(1872–1947) - Raffaello RomanelliRaffaello RomanelliRaffaello Romanelli was an Italian sculptor, born in Florence, Italy. His work includes many public monuments in honour of eminent Italians and others....
(1856–1928) - Franz RoseiFranz RoseiFranz Rosei is an Austrian sculptor and draughtsman. His brother is the writer Peter Rosei.- Biography :After completing high school in 1966, Franz Rosei started to work on wooden and gypsum sculptures...
(1947– ), Austrian - Tony Rosenthal (1914–2009)
- Charles Ross (artist)Charles Ross (artist)Charles Ross , is an American sculptor and earthwork artist. He was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A., and M.A. in Sculpture in 1962....
(1937– ) - Fred H. RosterFred H. RosterFred H. Roster is an American sculptor who was born in Palo Alto, California. He received an MA in ceramics from San José State University in 1968. He came to Hawaii in 1969 on his honeymoon and decided to stay. In 1970, he earned an MFA in sculpture from the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
(1944– ), American - Julie Rotblatt-AmranyJulie Rotblatt-AmranyJulie Rotblatt-Amrany is an American sculptor and painter identified with the resurgence of the figure in modern art. Rebelling against the academic bias against figurative art in the 1970s and 1980s, she has brought new vitality to the subject of the human form by integrating into her work recent...
(1958- ), American - Frederick RothFrederick RothFrederick George Richard Roth was an American sculptor and animalier, well known for portraying living animals. The statue of the sled dog Balto in New York City's Central Park is perhaps his most famous piece.-Biography:...
(1892–1944) - Louis-François RoubiliacLouis-François RoubiliacLouis-François Roubiliac was a French sculptor who worked in England, one of the four most prominent sculptors in London working in the rococo style, "probably the most accomplished sculptor ever to work in England", according to Margaret Whinney.-Works:Roubiliac was largely employed for portrait...
(1695–1792) - Barton RubensteinBarton RubensteinBarton Rubenstein is a modernist American sculptor. Rubenstein has focused most of his artistic efforts on themes related to water and kinetics.-Early life:...
(1962– ) - François RudeFrançois RudeFrançois Rude was a French sculptor. He was the stepfather of Paul Cabet, a sculptor.Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from François Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable...
(1784–1855) - Frederick RuckstullFrederick RuckstullFrederick Wellington Ruckstull was a French-born American sculptor and art critic.-Life and career:Born Ruckstuhl in Breitenbach, Alsace, France, his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1855. He worked at a variety of unsatisfying jobs until his early twenties when an art exhibition in St....
(1853–1942) - Ursula von RydingsvardUrsula von RydingsvardUrsula von Rydingsvard born in Deensen, Germany is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York for the past 30 years. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 1975 after which time she started to work with cedar, a material through which she has explored a wide range of...
(1942– ) - John Michael RysbrackJohn Michael RysbrackJohannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack , was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor. His birth-year is sometimes given as 1693 or 1684....
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- Andrew SabinAndrew SabinAndrew Sabin is an English sculptor and visual artist working in London.-Life and Work:Sabin was trained at the Chelsea School of Art .-Current projects:His latest project The Coldstones Cut,...
(1958– ), English - Henri SagnaHenri Sagna- Biography :Henri Sagna lives and works in Senegal. After his studies at the Ecole nationale des Arts of Dakar in 2005, he received the first prize at the sixth National Salon des artistes plasticiens sénégalais. Sagna is known as artist sculptor-recycler. He realises artworks assembling collected...
(1973– ), Senegalese - Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930–2002)
- Jawad SaleemJawad SaleemJawad Saleem was an Iraqi sculptor born in Ankara in 1920. He studied sculpture in Paris , Rome and London . After he returned to Iraq, he was appointed head of the Sculpture Dept. at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, a position he retained until his death in 1961...
(1920–1961) - Giuseppe Sammartino (1720–1793)
- Abbondio SangiorgioAbbondio SangiorgioAbbondio Sangiorgio was an Italian sculptor.Born in Milan, Sangiorgio studied at the city’s Accademia di Brera...
(1798–1879) - Jim Sanborn (1945– )
- Jacopo SansovinoJacopo SansovinoJacopo d'Antonio Sansovino was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity...
(1486–1570) - Heath SatowHeath SatowHeath Satow is an American artist who works primarily in fabricated metals.While attending the School of Design at North Carolina State University he apprenticed at Clearscapes, an architecture/sculpture firm in Raleigh, NC...
(1969– ) - Johann Gottfried SchadowJohann Gottfried SchadowJohann Gottfried Schadow was a German sculptor.-Biography:Schadow was born in Berlin, where his father was a poor tailor....
(1764–1850) - Rudolph SchadowRudolph SchadowRudolph Schadow was a German sculptor.Born in Rome, he had his father at Berlin for his first master....
(1786–1822) - Louis SchankerLouis SchankerLouis Schanker was an American abstract artist born in 1903. He grew up in an orthodox Jewish environment in the Bronx, New York. His parents were of Romanian descent...
(1903–1981) - Peter ScheemakersPeter ScheemakersPeter Scheemakers was a Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor who worked for most of his life in London, Great Britain....
(1691–1781) - Eric SchilskyEric SchilskyEric Schilsky, RA, was a sculptor.-Résumé:*Sculptor and lecturer, Westminster School of Art and subsequently the Edinburgh College of Art ....
(1898–1974) - Oskar SchlemmerOskar SchlemmerOskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture...
(1888–1943) - Andreas Schlüter (1660–1714)
- Andy ScottAndy Scott (sculptor)Andy Scott is a Scottish figurative sculptor in galvanised steel, fibreglass, and cast bronze. He is based in Maryhill, Glasgow, and specialises in public art...
(19??– ) - Tim ScottTim ScottTimothy Dale Scott is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2nd round of the 1984 MLB amateur draft, Scott made his Major League Baseball debut with the San Diego Padres on June 25, 1991. His final game in the major leagues came on July 2, 1997...
(1937– ) - Joseph SeigenthalerJoseph SeigenthalerJoseph Seigenthaler is an American sculptor and video artist who was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned a BFA in painting from the Memphis College of Art in 1981. Shortly after graduating, he freelanced sculpting life-sized wax figures for wax museums, primarily the Music Valley Wax Museum...
(born 1959), American - Maria SerebriakovaMaria SerebriakovaMaria Serebriakova is a Russian artist, who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.-Life and work:Maria Serebriakova was born in Moscow....
(1965– ), Russian - Johan Tobias SergelJohan Tobias SergelJohan Tobias Sergel , Swedish sculptor, was born in Stockholm.-Biography:After studying for some time in Paris he went to Rome, where he remained for twelve years and sculpted a number of groups in marble, including, besides subjects from classical mythology, a colossal representation of "History,"...
(1740–1814) - Richard SerraRichard SerraRichard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.-Early life and education:...
(1939– ) - Pablo Serrano (1908–1985)
- Desiderio da SettignanoDesiderio da SettignanoDesiderio da Settignano, real name Desiderio de Bartolomeo di Francesco detto Ferro was an Italian sculptor active during the Renaissance.-Biography:...
(ca.1430–1464) - Ivan ShadrIvan ShadrIvan Shadr , pseudonym of Ivan Dmitriyevich Ivanov was a Russian/Soviet sculptor and medalist who took his pseudonym after his hometown of Shadrinsk.- Life :...
(1887–1941) - Floyd ShamanFloyd ShamanFloyd Shaman was a prominent twentieth century American sculptor.-Life:Born in Wyoming, Shaman lived in several parts of the state in his early years and briefly in Seattle, Washington where his parents worked in the aircraft industry as part of the war effort. He graduated high school from...
(1935–2005) - Joel ShapiroJoel ShapiroJoel Shapiro is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. Shapiro is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. He lives and works in New York City, with a summer house on the shore of Lake Champlain, in Westport, New York...
(1941– ) - Judith SheaJudith SheaJudith Shea is an American-born sculptor. She is best known for a series of works in bronze in which she creates empty clothing forms which suggest figures that are not present; some of her more recent work incorporates figures as well...
(1948– ) - Izzy SherIzzy SherEmil "Izzy" Sher was a Jewish American sculptor who lived in Berkeley, California.- Childhood :Sher was born in 1912 or 1913 in Odessa, Russia. His father died when he was 6 and he and his younger sister were placed for a time in an orphanage...
(1912–1999) - Siona ShimshiSiona ShimshiSiona Shimshi is an Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer.-Early life:Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka and Avraham Shimshi, who had immigrated to Palestine from Lithuania in 1933...
(1939-) - Fedot ShubinFedot ShubinFedot Ivanovich Shubin is widely regarded as the greatest sculptor of 18th-century Russia.A peasant's son, Shubin was born in a Pomor village near Kholmogory and, inspired by the example of his neighbour Mikhail Lomonosov, he walked all the way to St Petersburg at the age of 18...
(1740–1805) - Robert William SievierRobert William SievierRobert William Sievier FRS was a notable English engraver, sculptor and later inventor of the 19th century.-Engraver and sculptor:...
(1794–1865) - Alice Louise Judd SimpichAlice Louise Judd SimpichAlice Louise Judd Simpich , also known as Awee Simpich and as Alice Louise Judd ‘Awee’ Simpich was an American sculptor. She was born in Honolulu on March 1, 1918 and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1940. Simpich is best known for her sensitive portrait busts...
(1918-2006) - John SiskoJohn SiskoJohn Sisko is an American realist sculptor currently living and working in Seattle in Washington State.- Life :John Sisko spent his early years in Montana. At age 6, he was first exposed to great sculpture at the 1964 New York World's Fair where Michelangelo's Pietà was exhibited outside of Italy...
(1958– ) - Lucas SitholeLucas SitholeLucas Sithole was a South African sculptor best known for his work in mainly indigenous woods, as well as for his sculptures in bronze, stone and other media....
(1931–1994) - John SkeapingJohn SkeapingJohn Rattenbury Skeaping, RA was an English sculptor and equine painter.Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping studied at Goldsmith's College, London, and later at the Royal Academy. He was the first husband of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, with whom he exhibited during the 1920s...
(1901–1980) - Blue SkyBlue Sky (artist)Blue Sky is the legal name of an American painter and sculptor best known for his mural, Tunnelvision.- Biography :...
(1938– ) - Sean SlemonSean SlemonSean Slemon is a South African artist who works in sculpture, installation and printmaking. He lives and works in New York City, New York...
(1978– ) - Claus SluterClaus SluterClaus Sluter was a sculptor of Dutch origin. He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern realism" of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.Sluter...
(active 14th century) - David SmithDavid Smith (sculptor)David Roland Smith was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.-Biography:...
(1906–1965) - Kiki SmithKiki SmithKiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...
(1954– ) - Tony SmithTony Smith (sculptor)Tony Smith was an American sculptor, visual artist, architectural designer, and a noted theorist on art. He is often cited as a pioneering figure in American Minimalist sculpture.-Education:...
(1912–1980) - Kenneth SnelsonKenneth SnelsonKenneth Snelson is a contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity', although Snelson does not use the term....
(1927– ) - Alexander SokolovAlexander SokolovAlexander Sokolov is a direct-carving or taille directe marble sculptor. He has spent about half his life in Spain, which has led to the distribution of his more central continental style within Iberia...
(1955– ) - Augustus Saint-GaudensAugustus Saint-GaudensAugustus Saint-Gaudens was the Irish-born American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance"...
(1848–1907) - Ralph StackpoleRalph StackpoleRalph Ward Stackpole was an American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator, San Francisco's leading artist during the 1920s and 1930s. Stackpole was involved in the art and causes of social realism, especially during the Great Depression, when he was part of the Federal Art Project...
(1885–1973) - Richard StankiewiczRichard StankiewiczRichard Stankiewicz was an American sculptor, known for his work in scrap metal.Stankiewicz was born in Philadelphia, but spent his formative years in Detroit. He began painting and sculpting while in the United States Navy, in which he served from 1941 until 1947...
(1922–1983) - Birgit StauchBirgit StauchBirgit Stauch is a contemporary German sculptor who works in bronzes, sculptures, sketches and portraits.-Life:...
(1961– ) - Emma StebbinsEmma StebbinsEmma Stebbins was among the first notable American woman sculptors.- Career :Born and raised in a wealthy New York family, Stebbins was encouraged by her family in her pursuit of art from an early age. In 1857, sponsored by her brother Col. Henry G...
(1815–1882) - Albert StewartAlbert StewartAlbert Stewart was an American sculptor born in Kensington, England.He arrived in America in 1908 and was orphaned shortly thereafter. Through the intervention of a wealthy benefactor, Edwin T...
(1900–1965) - Nicholas StoneNicholas StoneNicholas Stone was an English sculptor and architect. In 1619 he was appointed master-mason to James I, and in 1626 to Charles I....
(1586–1647) - Veit StossVeit StossVeit Stoss was a leading Bavarian sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance. His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery; it has been called "late Gothic Baroque"...
(1450–1533) - Imogen StuartImogen StuartImogen Stuart is a sculptor.Born in Berlin, she moved to Ireland in 1951. She was married for a time to Irish artist Ian Stuart, son of writer Francis Stuart.-Works:She works in wood, bronze, stone, steel, clay and terracotta...
(1927– ) - Emmet SullivanEmmet SullivanEmmet Sullivan, was an American sculptor. He was born in Powder River, Montana, and worked on Mount Rushmore, and later created the five dinosaurs in Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota in 1934, his first large scale project...
(1895– ) - George SugarmanGeorge SugarmanGeorge Sugarman was an American artist working in the mediums of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Often described as controversial and forward-thinking, Sugarman's prolific body of work defies a definitive style. He pioneered the concepts of pedestal-free sculpture and is best known for his...
(1912–1999) - John Macallan SwanJohn Macallan SwanJohn Macallan Swan was an English painter and sculptor.John Macallan Swan was born in Brentford, Middlesex in 1847. He received his art training first in England at the Worcester and Lambeth schools of art and the Royal Academy schools, and subsequently in Paris, in the studios of Jean-Léon Gérôme...
(1847–1910) - Katharina Szelinski-SingerKatharina Szelinski-SingerKatharina Szelinski-Singer, born as Katharina Singer was a German sculptress. She has lived in Berlin since 1945....
(1918– ) - László Szlávics, Jr.László Szlávics, Jr.László Szlávics a Hungarian sculptor and medallic artist. He publishes his works under the names László, ifj. Szlávics or Laszlo Szlavics, Jr.-Biography:...
(1959– ) - Stanislav Szukalski (1893–1987)
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- Lorado TaftLorado TaftLorado Zadoc Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator. Taft was born in Elmwood, Illinois in 1860 and died in his home studio in Chicago in 1936.-Early years and education:...
(1860–1936) - Shinkichi TajiriShinkichi TajiriShinkichi Tajiri was a Dutch-American sculptor of Japanese ancestry . He was also active in painting, photography and cinematography....
(1923–2009) - Simone di Francesco TalentiFrancesco TalentiFrancesco Talenti was a Tuscan architect and sculptor who worked mainly in Florence after 1351. He is mentioned working at Orvieto Cathedral in 1325. In the 1350s he completed the two middle storeys of Giotto's Campanile, and two doorways, the Porta dei Cornacchini and the Porta del Campanile,...
(ca. 1300–1369) - Henry TayaliHenry TayaliHenry Nkole Tayali was a multi-lingual Zambian fine artist, sculptor, printmaker, raconteur and lecturer. He has been described as Zambia's most famous painter, and most revered and pre-eminent artist.-Early life:...
(1943–1987), Zambian - Sir Robert TaylorRobert Taylor (architect)Sir Robert Taylor was a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century.Born at Woodford, Essex, Taylor followed in his father's footsteps and started working as a stonemason and sculptor, spending time as a pupil of Sir Henry Cheere...
(1714–1788) - Piotr Tayozhny (1887–1952)
- John TernouthJohn TernouthJohn Ternouth was an English sculptor of the early 19th century. His most notable work is one of the four panels at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square, depicting the Battle of Copenhagen.-Life:...
(1796–1848) - Josef ThorakJosef ThorakJosef Thorak was an Austrian-German sculptor.In 1922 Thorak's reputation increased when he created Der sterbende Krieger, a statue in memory to the dead of World War I of Stolpmünde.In 1933 and in following years, Thorak joined Arno Breker as one of the two "official sculptors" of the Third Reich...
(1889–1952) - Alan ThornhillAlan ThornhillAlan Thornhill is a British artist and sculptor whose long association with clay developed from pottery into sculpture. His evolved methods of working enabled the dispensing of the sculptural armature to allow improvisation, whilst his portraiture challenges notions of normality through rigorous...
(1921– ) - Hamo ThornycroftHamo ThornycroftSir William "Hamo" Thornycroft, RA was a British sculptor, responsible for several London landmarks.-Biography:...
(1850–1925) - Bertel ThorvaldsenBertel ThorvaldsenBertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy . Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a Danish/Icelandic family of humble means, and was accepted to the Royal Academy of Arts when he was eleven years old...
(1770–1844) - Thomas ThurlowThomas ThurlowThomas Thurlow was a renowned English sculptor who created memorials in churches in the Saxmundham, Suffolk area, including a bust of the poet George Crabbe in Aldeburgh Church. His father, John Thurlow , was a builder and stonemason who built 'The White House' in the High Street...
(1813–1899) - Rebecca TobeyRebecca Tobey- Early years :Rebecca was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and spent most of her childhood in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as one of three children of Elizabeth and Arthur Upton. Her mother was a painter and her father spent his professional life working as a scientist who would later chair the National Cancer...
(1948– ) - Todor TodorovTodor TodorovTodor Todorov is a Bulgarian sculptor , born in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 26, 1951. He studied his masters at National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria and graduated in 1977. Over the past 30 years he has primarily produced large scale works in the area of public sculpture and kinetic...
(1951– ) - Albert ToftAlbert ToftAlbert Toft was a British sculptor.Toft trained in Wedgwood's pottery and studied sculpture at the South Kensington Schools under Professor Edouard Lanteri.-Notable works:...
(1862–1949) - Tim TolkienTim TolkienTim Tolkien is an English sculptor who has designed several monumental sculptures, including the award-winning Sentinel.His other claim to fame is as the great-nephew of J. R. R. Tolkien, the famous author of the fantasy book The Lord of the Rings...
(1962– ) - Michael TomMichael TomMichael Tom was an American sculptor who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received a bachelor of fine art degree in painting and metalsmithing from Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, and pursued graduate studies at San Diego State University. He started his artistic...
(1946–1999) - Pierre Toutain-DorbecPierre Toutain-DorbecPierre Toutain-Dorbec, in Orbec, Normandy, France is a photographer, artist, author, and publisher whose work emphasizes a humanist perspective. Pierre Toutain-Dorbec currently resides in New Mexico, USA.-Biography:...
(1951– ) - Niccolò Tribolo (ca. 1500–1550)
- Aert van TrichtAert van TrichtAert van Tricht was a Dutch metal-caster who was active in Maastricht between 1492 and 1501, in Antwerp in 1521 . His known works include the following:* Copper font for Sint Janskerk Aert van Tricht was a Dutch metal-caster who was active in Maastricht between 1492 and 1501, in Antwerp in 1521...
(15th – 16th century - Zoja TrofimiukZoja TrofimiukZoja Trofimiuk is an Australian sculptor and printmaker, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She specializes in cast glass; her studio is in Melbourne. Zbych Trofimiuk, an Australian actor, is her son.-Education:...
(1952– ) - Prince Paul TroubetzkoyPaolo TroubetzkoyPrince Paolo or Paul Troubetzkoy was an artist and a sculptor, of Russia's Troubetzkoy princely family, who was described by G.B. Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times".-Life:He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy...
(1866–1938) - Anne TruittAnne TruittAnne Truitt was a major American artist of the mid-20th century; she is associated with both minimalism and Color Field artists like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland....
(1921–2004) - Zurab TsereteliZurab TsereteliZurab Konstantines dze Tsereteli is a Georgian-Russian painter, sculptor and architect who holds the office of President of the Russian Academy of Arts.- Life :...
(1934– ) - Tom Tsuchiya (1972– )
- Heather TweedHeather TweedHeather Tweed is a visual artist based in the UK whose artwork is exhibited nationally and internationally. Graduating from Exeter College of Art in 1983, she first came to national attention with her Anubis Other World Tour series of exhibitions beginning in 1997.She has had solo exhibitions in...
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- Peter Van DievoetPeter Van DievoetPeter van Dievoet was a Belgian sculptor and designer of ornamental architectural features. He was born in Brussels, baptised 29 June 1661 in the church of Sainte-Gudule, died 2 March 1729 in Brussels....
(1661–1729) - Josefina de VasconcellosJosefina de VasconcellosJosefina Alys Hermes de Vasconcellos was an English sculptor of Brazilian origin. She was at one time the world's oldest living sculptor. She lived in Cumbria much of her working life...
(1904–2005) - Yevgeny VuchetichYevgeny VuchetichYevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich was a prominent Soviet sculptor and artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style.He was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire...
(1908–1974) - Andrea del VerrocchioAndrea del VerrocchioAndrea del Verrocchio , born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence in the early renaissance. Few paintings are attributed to him with certainty, but a number of important painters were...
(ca.1435–1488) - Ales VeselyAleš VeselýAleš Veselý is a Czech sculptor. From 1952 to 1958, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. At the end of the 1950, he was part of the art movement known as the Czech Abstraction. More recently, he has worked on monumental sculptures, often connected with a specific landscape...
(1935– ) - Gustav VigelandGustav VigelandGustav Vigeland was a Norwegian sculptor. Gustav Vigeland occupies a special position among Norwegian sculptors, both in the power of his creative imagination and in his productivity. He is most associated with Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo...
(1869–1943) - Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
(1452–1519) - Paul de VignePaul de VignePaul de Vigne , Belgian sculptor, was born at Ghent. He was trained by his father, a statuary, and began by exhibiting his Fra Angeico da Fiesole at the Ghent Salon in 1868. In 1872 he exhibited at the Brussels Salon a marble statue, Heliotrope , and in 1875, at Brussels, Beatrix and Domenica...
(1843–1901) - Fernando VillapolFernando VillapolFernando Villapol Parapar is a museum curator and art critic, most famous as a contemporary Galician sculptor. He currently lives and works in the town of Bretoña located in Galicia. He is also the founder of the Ethnographic-Pedagogic Museum in Bretoña...
(1953– ), Spanish - Romano Vio (1913–1984 Venezia)
- Wolf VostellWolf VostellWolf Vostell was a German painter, sculptor, noise music maker and Happening artist of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the pioneers of video art, environment-sculptures, Happenings and the Fluxus Movement...
(1932–1998), German - Adriaen de VriesAdriaen de VriesAdriaen de Vries was a Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands, whose international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque; he excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and in the manipulation of patina and became the most famous European sculptor of his generation...
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- Elias WakanElias WakanElias Wakan is a constructivist sculptor working since 1996 on Gabriola Island, in British Columbia, Canada. His sculptures are reminiscent of the work of Naum Gabo and others in the Russian Constructivist movement. His wooden sculptures are assembled from as many as thousands of identical...
(1945– ), Canadian - Nellie WalkerNellie WalkerNellie Verne Walker , was an American sculptor best known for her statue of James Harlan in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol, Washington D.C.-Early years:...
(1874–1973) - Olin Levi WarnerOlin Levi WarnerOlin Levi Warner was an American sculptor and artist noted for the striking bas relief portrait medallions and busts he created in the late 19th century....
(1844–1896) - Charles WaterhouseCharles Waterhouse (artist)Charles Waterhouse is an American painter, illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans subjects from Tun Tavern, the birthplace of the U. S...
(1924– ) - Musgrave WatsonMusgrave WatsonMusgrave Lewthwaite Watson was an English sculptor of the early 19th century.Watson was born in Cumberland, being christened on 8 March 1804 at Hawksdale, near Dalston. His parents were prosperous farmers, who also owned an iron-forge...
(1804–1847) - George Frederic WattsGeorge Frederic WattsGeorge Frederic Watts, OM was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life...
(1817–1904) - Henry WeekesHenry WeekesHenry Weekes, RA was an English sculptor, best known for his portraiture. He was among the most successful British sculptors of the mid-Victorian period....
(1807–1877) - Albert WeinAlbert WeinAlbert W. Wein, American sculptor born in New York City on July 27, 1915. He died in March 1991. His mother, Elsa Meher Wein was a portrait painter and it was through her that Wein was first introduced to art. He began his art studies at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts at the age...
(1915–1991) - Adolph Alexander WeinmanAdolph Alexander WeinmanAdolph Alexander Weinman was an American sculptor, born in Karlsruhe, Germany.- Biography :Weinman arrived in the United States at the age of 10. At the age of 15, he attended evening classes at Cooper Union and later studied at the Art Students League of New York with sculptors Augustus St....
(1870–1952) - Felix de WeldonFelix de WeldonFelix Weihs de Weldon was an American sculptor. His most famous piece is the Marine Corps War Memorial of five U.S. Marines and one sailor raising the flag of the United States on Iwo Jima during World War Two.-Biography:...
(1907–2003) - Jan de Weryha-WysoczanskiJan de Weryha-WysoczanskiJan de Weryha-Wysoczański is a Polish sculptor and Concrete artist.He was born in Gdańsk. From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg. In 1998, he won 1st prize, Prix du Jury, at the 'Salon de Printemps 98',...
(1950– ) - Franz WestFranz WestFranz West is an Austrian artist.-Work:His art practice started as a reaction to the Viennese Actionism movement has been exhibited in museums and galleries for more than three decades...
(1947– ) - Clara WesthoffClara WesthoffClara Westhoff was a sculptress and the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.At the early age of 17 Clara Westhoff went to Munich where she attended a private art school. In 1898 she moved to Worpswede and learned sculpture with Fritz Mackensen...
(1875–1954) - Sir Richard WestmacottRichard WestmacottSir Richard Westmacott, Jr., RA was a British sculptor.-Life and career:He studied under his father, Richard Westmacott the Elder, before going to Rome in 1793 to study under Antonio Canova...
(1747–1808) - Robert WhiteRobert White (sculptor)Robert Winthrop White was a highly-respected American sculptor and educator who lived for much of his life in St. James, Long Island, New York...
(1921–2002) - Anne WhitneyAnne WhitneyAnne Whitney was an American sculptor and poet. She was born in Watertown, Massachusetts on September 2, 1821 and died in Boston, Massachusetts on January 23, 1915.-Early years:...
(1821–1915) - Gertrude Vanderbilt WhitneyGertrude Vanderbilt WhitneyGertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City...
(1875–1942) - Isaac WitkinIsaac WitkinIsaac Witkin, internationally renowned modern sculptor, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 10 May 1936, and he died 23 April 2006. Witkin entered St Martin’s School of Art in London, in 1957. Studying under Sir Anthony Caro and alongside other luminaries in training such as Phillip King,...
(1936–2006) - Anton van WouwAnton Van WouwAnton van Wouw was a Dutch-born sculptor regarded as the father of South African sculpture.-Biography:...
(1862–1945) - Jan de Weryha-WysoczanskiJan de Weryha-WysoczanskiJan de Weryha-Wysoczański is a Polish sculptor and Concrete artist.He was born in Gdańsk. From 1971 to 1976 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 1981, he has been living and working in Hamburg. In 1998, he won 1st prize, Prix du Jury, at the 'Salon de Printemps 98',...
(1950– ) - Steven WhyteSteven WhyteSteven Whyte is a sculptor classically trained in the traditional methodology of figurative bronze sculpture living in Carmel, California who has produced many public memorials and installations in both England and throughout the United States with subjects ranging from miners, to soldiers and...
(1969– ) - Shane WilsonShane WilsonShane Wilson is a sculptor who has lived and worked in Yukon and British Columbia, Canada. His principal mediums are antler, horn, ivory, and bronze, from which he creates sculpture in his signature style, a juxtaposition of abstract organic and non-organic shapes, best seen in his moose skull...
(1961– ) - Joseph WiltonJoseph WiltonJoseph Wilton was an English sculptor and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 .Born to a wealthy family in London, Wilton trained in Flanders, Paris, Rome and Florence...
(1722–1803) - Elizabeth Wyn WoodElizabeth Wyn WoodElizabeth Wyn Wood was a Canadian sculptor, born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada.Wood studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and at the Art Students League of New York...
(1901-1966) - William F WoodingtonWilliam F WoodingtonWilliam Frederick Woodington was a notable English painter and sculptor of the 19th century.He was born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire William Frederick Woodington (10 February 1806 - 24 December 1893) was a notable English painter and sculptor of the 19th century.He was born in Sutton...
(1806–1893) - Bill WoodrowBill WoodrowBill Woodrow is a British sculptor.Woodrow was one of a number of British sculptors to emerge in the late 1970s, the others including Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg....
(1948– ) - Marysole Wörner BazMarysole Wörner BazMarysole Wörner Baz is a Mexican painter and sculptor.-Biography:Contemporary to the so called “Rupture’s Generation” but closer, by affinity and coexistence, to the exiled European artists living in Mexico, like Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington,...
(1936– ), Mexican - Matthew Cotes WyattMatthew Cotes WyattMatthew Cotes Wyatt was a painter and sculptor and a member of the Wyatt family, who were well-known in the Victorian era as architects and sculptors.-Early life:...
(1777–1862) - Richard James WyattRichard WyattRichard James Wyatt was a sculptor born in London, England. He was the grandson of the architect James Wyatt. Wyatt studied in Rome under Canova, and was a fellow student of John Gibson...
(1795–1850)