Louis Bancel (sculptor)
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Louis Bancel was a French sculptor born in Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette
, father of French historian Nicolas Bancel.
in Lyon, only to stop them at 17 when he decided to join the French resistance
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After the war, his life in the resistance and his recent introduction to art history led him to drop the idea of a life as an engineer.
After 3 years as an apprentice for the French sculptor Lucien Descombe in Lyon, he moved in Paris in 1948.
Citing moderns like Picasso, Matisse and Laurens, but also the primitive sculptures from the Cyclades, Bancel's work on forms and design gradually evolved towards purity and simplicity.
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(Let this forever show how the Man had to fall
And how courage and devotion
Maintain his name of Man)
Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette
Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette is a commune in the Loire department in central France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire department* Louis Bancel, french sculptor born in Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette-References:*...
, father of French historian Nicolas Bancel.
Biography
Bancel obtained his baccalaureate early and began to study Further Mathematics at the Lycée du ParcLycée du Parc
The Lycée du Parc is a public secondary school located in the sixth arrondissement of Lyon, France. Its name comes from the Parc de la Tête d'Or, one of Europe's largest urban parks, which is situated nearby....
in Lyon, only to stop them at 17 when he decided to join the French resistance
French Resistance
The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
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After the war, his life in the resistance and his recent introduction to art history led him to drop the idea of a life as an engineer.
After 3 years as an apprentice for the French sculptor Lucien Descombe in Lyon, he moved in Paris in 1948.
Citing moderns like Picasso, Matisse and Laurens, but also the primitive sculptures from the Cyclades, Bancel's work on forms and design gradually evolved towards purity and simplicity.
Memorial to the deportees of Buchenwald
Through his friend, painter Boris Taslitsky, Louis Bancel was asked in 1957 by the Association des déportés de Buchenwald-Dora to create the monument dedicated to the memory of the camp's victims. The monumental bronze sculpture (inaugurated April, 5 1964) now stands in the Père Lachaise cemetery, in the area dedicated to victims of the World War II. It stands on a granite support from the architect M. Romer (a deportee himself) engraved with a text from Louis AragonLouis Aragon
Louis Aragon , was a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.- Early life :...
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(Let this forever show how the Man had to fall
And how courage and devotion
Maintain his name of Man)
Sources
- GOUTTENOIRE Bernard, Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs à Lyon aux XIXe et XXe siècles, Lyon, La Taillanderie, 2000.
- Société des Amis de Louis Aragon et Elsa Triolet, Faites entrer l'infini n°26, Paris, Société des Amis de Louis Aragon et Elsa Triolet, Decembre 1998.
- Monuments à la mémoire des déporté(e)s victimes des camps de concentration et d'extermination nazis, Mairie de Paris : Musée de la Résistance nationale, 2005