André-Joseph Allar

André-Joseph Allar (22 August 1845 – 11 April 1926)[1] was a French sculptor.

André-Joseph Allar
Born22 August 1845
Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Died11 April 1926 (1926-04-12) (aged 80)
Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
OccupationSculptor
RelativesGaudensi Allar (brother)

Biography

André-Joseph Allar was born in Toulon on 22 August 1845.

He became a successful sculptor after training under Antoine Laurent Dantan and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. Allar is best known for his small-scale work and architectural designs with majority of his work situated at the local museum in Toulon, including 'Hercules finding his dead son'.[2] His artworks on Hercules is evidently inspired by the Greek hero, but in particular, the stories that depict the character as a saviour.[3] His architectural features include his works in the Palacio Legislativo Federal with Laurent Marqueste[4] and in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.[5] Another one of his famous works is the statue of law displayed on the façade Palace of Justice, Rome.[6]

In addition to his career as an artist, Allar joined the Legion of Honour as an officer in 1896 and the French Institute in 1905.[2] He won various prizes but most notably the Prix de Rome in 1869 for his sculpture, and later became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 20 May 1905.

He died in Toulon on 11 April 1926. A street in Marseille has been named in his honor.

Main works
  • Hécube découvrant le cadavre de Polydore, musée des Beaux-Arts à Marseille
  • La mort d’Alceste, inspired by his wife's death, Lisieux
  • Enfant des Abruzzes, musée d'Orsay[7]
  • Thétis portant les armes d’Achille
  • Buste de Montricher, gallery of the palais Longchamp in Marseille
  • Sainte Madeleine on the facade of the Cathedral de la Major in Marseille
  • Monument de la Fédération on the place de la République in Toulon.
  • Fontaine de la place Estrangin, Marseille
  • Fontaine de la place Castellane, Marseille, in collaboration with Jules Cantini
  • Portrait de son frère Gaudensi, museum of Toulon
  • Statues de Jean Bullant et de Jean Goujon, on the front of the Mairie de Paris
  • Statue de Frédéric Le Play, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
  • The Youth and The Virile Age sculptures in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Mexico
  • Monument du Centenaire, Nice

References
  1. "André-Joseph Allar". Artnet. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. "André Joseph Allar". Sotheby's. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  3. Caballero, Manuel. Hercules: A hero for all ages. University of Leeds. p. 22. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  4. Marshall, Bill (2005). France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. United States of America: ABC-CLIO. p. 29. ISBN 9781851094110.
  5. María Fernández (2014). Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (First ed.). United States of America: University of Texas Press, Austin. pp. 133, 134. ISBN 9780292745353.
  6. "Andre Joseph Allar (French 1845-1926). A gilt and patinated bronze allegorical model". Woolley and Wallis. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  7. La mort d'Alceste, Enfant des Abruzzes Site of the musée d'Orsay
  • Académie de Marseille, Dictionnaire des marseillais, Edisud, Marseille, 2001, (ISBN 2-7449-0254-3)
  • Paul Masson, Encyclopédie des Bouches-du-Rhône, Archives départementales, Marseille, 17 volumes, from 1913 to 1937
  • Adrien Blés, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Marseille, Jeanne Laffitte ed., Marseille, 1989, (ISBN 2-86276-195-8).
  • Bruno Wuillequiey, Denise Jasmin, Luc Georget, Bénédicte Ottinger, Florence Dagousset and Gilles Mihière, Régis Bertrand, Marseille au XIXe, rêves et triomphes, Musées de Marseille (16 November 1991 – 15 February 1992), (ISBN 2-7118-2487-X)
  • Régine Allar, La dynastie des Allar, Revue Marseille, 1982, N° 130, pages 138-143

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