Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (21 March 1881 – 20 March 1971) was a

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animalier sculptor and painter.Fontaine aux singes
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Biography

Sandoz was a son of the entrepreneur Édouard Constant Sandoz, the co-founder of the chemical and later pharmaceutical company Sandoz, and the brother of the author Maurice-Yves Sandoz. In 1923 he joined the board of directors of Sandoz; in 1941 he took over the position of CEO of the company in France. After his father's death in 1928, Edouard Marcel inherited his country estate ''Le Denantou'' in Lausanne, which he transformed into a workshop. In the 1920s he developed a light projection technique for theatre stages. In 1935 he was one of the founding partners of the photographic paper manufacturer Tellko S.A. in Freiburg. He studied from 1900 to 1903 at the Haute école d'arts appliqués de Genève and from 1904 to 1907 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the sculptors

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. In 1909, he married Adèle Passavant, with whom he settled in the Montparnasse district of Paris in 1910. Sandoz created almost 1800 sculptures and over 200 porcelain models. In addition to creating human figures, he mainly worked as an animal sculptor, making his objects from materials such as stone, onyx, porcelain,

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bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...

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s. He participated in numerous exhibitions, including the 1906 salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts and the 1911 salon of the Société des artistes décorateurs. During the First World War, he turned to ceramics and designed models for the porcelain manufacturers Haviland & Co. (

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), Sèvres, and Langenthal. He made numerous small figures, some in

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, others borrowed from

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, and others as Art Deco statuettes. His metal figures were mostly handcrafted by the

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foundry. As a painter, he mainly depicted flowers and landscapes.Artnet, Edouard Marcel Sandoz (Swiss, 1881–1971)
/ref> In 1921 he travelled to North Africa and painted watercolors for folding brochures. In 1933 he founded the Société française des animaliers (French Society of Animal Sculptors). He showed his works in the pavilion of the Société des artistes décorateurs at the World Exhibition Paris 1937. In 1947 he was elected a member of the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts. The University of Lausanne awarded him an honorary doctorate in geology and botany in 1959. He was appointed Commander of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. File:Chevauchee-Bacchus-Sandoz 02.JPG, ''La première chevauchée de Bacchus'', Vevey File:Fontaine aux Singes.jpg, La ''Fontaine aux Singes'', parc du Denantou, Lausanne File:Le Faune d'Édouard-Marcel Sandoz.jpg, Le ''Faune'', parc du Denantou, Lausanne

Awards

* Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, * Commandeur of the

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Bibliography

* Félix Marcilhac, ''Edouard Marcel Sandoz: sculpteur, figuriste et animalier, 1881-1971'', Editions de l'amateur, 1993.

References

External links

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Sandoz sur musée Dubouché Limoges

Fondation Édouard et Maurice Sandoz

Sandoz, Bronze Gallery

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