Boucher, Jean

has biography | a une biographie: Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, then Paris, he made a name for himself with his monument to Ernest Renan in 1903. After serving as a volunteer from 1914 to 1918, he became a professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1919 and was elected to the Académie des Beaux Arts in 1936. He created the sculptures for the Verdun Victory and Soldiers' Monument. His "Poilu" statue for the town of Vitré (1921) established him as a major statuary of the 1920s.
was born | est né: 20 November 1870
died in | est mort par: 17 June 1939
has nationality | a la nationalité: France
has type | est de type: artist

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1922, An artist is commissioned to make the monument to Gallieni in Paris

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Statue of Joseph Gallieni, Paris