Art competitions were held as part of the

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. Medals were awarded in five categories (

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literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

, and

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

), for works inspired by sport-related themes. The art exhibition was held at the

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from 15 July to 14 August, and displayed works of art from 27 different countries. The literature competition attracted 44 entries, and the music competition had 36 entries. The art competitions included multiple subcategories for each of the five artistic categories. The judges declined to award any medals for dramatic works in literature, and no gold medals in another five subcategories.

Alex Diggelmann Alex Walter Diggelmann (August 20, 1902 – November 21, 1987) was a Switzerland, Swiss graphic artist and book designer best known for his sports posters. Diggelmann won three medals in the Olympic Games. He won a gold medal in 1936 fo ...

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won both a silver medal and a bronze medal for two different entries in the applied arts and crafts subcategory, a feat unlikely to be duplicated in any event in the current Olympic program. These were the last Games in which art competitions were held, after being in the official program for all Games since 1912. At a meeting of the

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in 1949 it was decided to hold art ''exhibitions'' instead, as it was judged illogical to permit professionals to compete in the art competitions while only amateurs were permitted to compete in sporting events. Since 1952 a non-competitive art and cultural festival has been associated with each Games.

Architecture

Literature

Music

Painting and graphic art

Sculpture

Medal table

At the time, medals were awarded to these artists, but art competitions are no longer regarded as official Olympic events by the International Olympic Committee. These events do not appear in the IOC medal database, and these totals are not included in the IOC's medal table for the 1948 Games.

Events summary

Architecture

Designs for Town Planning The following architects took part: Architectural designs The following architects took part: Further entries The following architects took part:

Literature

Dramatic works The following writers took part: Epic works The following writers took part: Lyric works The following writers took part: Unknown event The following writers took part:

Music

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Zbigniew Turski Zbigniew Turski (21 July 1908 – 6 January 1979) was a Polish composer. He was born in Konstancin and died in Warsaw. In 1948 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his ''Symfonia Olimpijska'' ("Olympic Symp ...

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Erling Brene Niels Erling Emmanuel Brene (14 November 1896 – 17 May 1980) was a Danish composer. He was born and died in Copenhagen. In 1948, he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his orchestral composition ''Vigeur'' (Vi ...

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Grażyna Bacewicz Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the ...

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Einar Englund Sven Einar Englund (June 17, 1916 – June 27, 1999) was a Finnish composer. Life Sven Einar Englund was born at Ljugarn in Gotland, Sweden, on June 17, 1916; he died June 27, 1999, in Visby, Sweden. He married twice: in 1941 to Meri Mirjam G ...

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Jan Kapr Jan Kapr (12 March 1914, in Prague – 29 April 1988, in Prague) was one of the most prolific Czech composers of the second half of the 20th century. Life He studied at the Prague Conservatory, as a pupil of Jaroslav Řídký, and at the master ...

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Maurice Thiriet Maurice Thiriet (; 2 May 1906 – 28 September 1972) was a French composer of classical and film music. Biography Born in Meulan, Yvelines, Maurice Thiriet attended the Paris Conservatory from 1925 to 1931, studying counterpoint and fugue with ...

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Stanisław Wiechowicz Stanisław Wiechowicz (; 27 November 1893 – 12 May 1963) was a Polish composer, music conductor, music educator and music critic. Biography Stanisław Wiechowicz was born in Kroszyce, near Kielce, Poland. He studied organ at the Conservatory of ...

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Yves Baudrier Yves Marie Baudrier (11 February 1906 – 9 November 1988) was a French composer. Along with André Jolivet, Olivier Messiaen and Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, he was a founder of the '' La jeune France'' group of composers. He also competed in the ...

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Jean Daetwyler Jean Daetwyler (24 January 1907, Basel – 4 June 1994, Sierre) was a Swiss composer and musician. He is barely remembered, mostly for his largely forgotten works for alphorn inspired by Jozsef Molnar beginning in 1970. Also inspired by trombonis ...

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Oskar Morawetz Oskar Morawetz, (January 17, 1917 – June 13, 2007) was a Canadian composer. Biography Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi takeov ...

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Harry Somers Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was a contemporary Canadian composer. Possessing a charismatic attitude and rather dashing good looks, as well as a genuine talent for his art, Somers earned the unofficial title ...

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Ina Boyle Ina Boyle (8 March 1889 – 10 March 1967) was an Irish composer. Her compositions encompass a broad spectrum of genres and include choral, chamber and orchestral works as well as opera, ballet and vocal music. While a number of her works, incl ...

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Gerard Victory Thomas Joseph Gerard Victory (24 December 1921 – 14 March 1995) was a prolific Irish composer. He wrote over two hundred works across many genres and styles, including tonal, serial, aleatoric and electroacoustic music. Biography Victory ...

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Jan Zdeněk Bartoš Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (4 June 1908, Dvůr Králové nad Labem – 1 June 1981, Prague) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Biography Bartoš started to play the violin as a pupil of Karel Hršel in Hradec Králové. In 1924, after he graduated from busi ...

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Painting

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Albert Decaris Albert Decaris (6 May 1901 – 1 January 1988) was a French artist, engraver, painter and Olympic Gold Medallist. Early life Decaris was born in Sotteville-lès-Rouen. At age 19, Decaris won the '' Concours de Rome'', which was seen as the pr ...

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Walter Battiss Walter Whall Battiss (6 January 1906 – 20 August 1982) was a South African artist, also known as the creator of the "Fook Island" concept. Early life Battiss was born into an English Methodist family in the Karoo town of Somerset Eas ...

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Adam Marczyński Adam Marczyński (24 December 1908 – 13 January 1985) was a Polish Painting, painter. He died in Kraków. Marczyński came into his own as an artist of post-war Kraków. He studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Art ...

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Gino De Finetti Gino De Finetti also Gino von Finetti (9 May 1877 – 5 August 1955) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born in Istria, De Finetti had a childhood characteri ...

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John Skeaping John Rattenbury Skeaping, RA (9 June 1901 – 5 March 1980) was an English sculptor and equine painter and sculptor. He designed animal figures for Wedgwood, and his life-size statue of Secretariat is exhibited at the National Museum of R ...

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Hans Erni Hans Erni (February 21, 1909 – March 21, 2015) was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, the third of eight siblings, to a cabin cruiser engineer, he studied art at the Académie Julian in Par ...

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Winifred Austen Winifred Maria Louise Austen (12 July 1876 – 1 November 1964) was an English illustrator, painter, etcher and aquatint engraver, particularly known for her detailed depictions of small mammals and birds. Early years and education Born in Ra ...

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Luigi Bartolini Luigi Bartolini (8 February 1892 – 16 May 1963) was an Italian painter, writer, and poet. He is known for his novel, ''Bicycle Thieves'', upon which the Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica and of the same title was based. He pub ...

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Anthony Gross Anthony Imre Alexander Gross (19 March 1905 – 8 September 1984) was a British printmaking, printmaker, painter, British official war artists, war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent.Thomas, Ro ...

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Alfred Thomson Alfred Reginald Thomson (10 December 1894 – 27 October 1979) was an English artist and Olympic Gold Medalist, most notable for being an official War Artist to the Royal Air Force during World War Two. Biography Thomson was born in Ban ...

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Giovanni Stradone Giovanni Stradone or Giovanni Stradóne (10 November 1911, in Nola – 6 February 1981, in Rome) was an Italian painter. He was a figurative painter who worked in a personal expressionist style.Letitia Hamilton , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Thies Luijt , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Aimé Thevenet , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Cosmo Clark , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Fritz Brandtner , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left",

Lucien Fontanarosa Lucien Fontanarosa (19 December 1912 – 27 April 1975) was a French painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympi ...

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Howard Jarvis Howard Arnold Jarvis (September 22, 1903 – August 12, 1986) was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978. Early life and education Jarvis ...

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K. S. Kulkarni Krishna Shamrao Kulkarni (7 April 1916 – 7 October 1994) was an Indian painter and an educator. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was also the founder-president of the avant-ga ...

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Lionel Edwards Lionel Edwards (9 November 1878 – 13 April 1966) was a British artist who specialised in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but also painted pictures of horse racing, shootin ...

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Mino Maccari Mino Maccari (24 November 1898 – 16 June 1989) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Maccari was one of the founders of a political magazine, ''Il Selvaggio ...

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Robert Lips Robert Lips (21 August 1912 – 28 February 1975), was a Swiss cartoonist. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon character ''Globi'' for Globus. He was also a fencer and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 Sum ...

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Roy Beddington Roy Beddington (16 June 1910 – 31 May 1995) was a British painter, illustrator, fisherman, poet, writer on fishing, and journalist. As an artist he was known for his watercolours, with his first one-man shows being at Grafton and Walker's gall ...

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Paul Maze Paul Lucien Maze (21 May 1887 – 17 September 1979) was an Anglo-French painter. He is often known as “The last of the Post Impressionists" and was one of the great artists of his generation. His mediums included oils, watercolours and pastel ...

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Anna Zinkeisen Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (29 August 1901 – 23 September 1976) was a Scottish painter and artist. Biography Zinkeisen was born in Kilcreggan, the daughter of Clare Bolton-Charles and Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant. The family moved to Mid ...

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Maurice MacGonigal Maurice MacGonigal (22 January 1900 – 31 January 1979) was an Irish landscape and portrait painter and influential teacher. Life Maurice MacGonigal was born in Ranelagh, Dublin on 22 January 1900. His parents were Francis and Caroline M ...

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Deirdre Henty-Creer Deirdre Henty-Creer (28 December 1918 – 9 January 2012) was an Australian painter known for her flower and portrait studies who spent the majority of her career in Britain. Henty-Creer was privately educated and a self-taught artist. Dur ...

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Doris Zinkeisen Doris Clare Zinkeisen (31 July 1898 – 3 January 1991) was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist, and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design. Early life Doris Zinkeisen was born in C ...

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Paula Maly Paula Maly (21 October 1891 – 19 October 1974) was an Austrian painter. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad a ...

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Alec Pecker Alec Pecker (2 September 1893 – 1975) was a British painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also kno ...

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Kees Andrea Cornelis (Kees) Andrea (3 February 1914 in The Hague – 7 July 2006 in The Hague) was a Dutch artist. He was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague, and member of the Verve group. Primarily a graphic artist, he also worked in textiles. Hi ...

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Angelo Savelli Angelo Savelli (30 October 1911 – 27 April 1995) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad ...

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Charles Cundall Charles Ernest Cundall, , (6 September 1890 – 4 November 1971), was an English painter of topographical subjects and townscapes, best known for his large panoramic canvases. Early life Cundall was born in Stretford, Lancashire. Afte ...

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Kees Maks Cornelis Johannes Maks (August 22, 1876 – October 28, 1967), known as Kees Maks, was a Dutch painter born in Amsterdam. He studied for a time at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, before becoming a pupil of George Hendrik Breitner.Jansen ...

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Elli Riehl Elli Riehl (19 December 1902 – 8 September 1977) was an Austrian painter. Her work was part of the Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics#Painting, painting event in the Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics, art competition a ...

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Giuseppe Capogrossi Giuseppe Capogrossi (7 March 1900 – 9 October 1972) was an Italian painter. Biography Capogrossi was born in Rome. After obtaining a degree in law in 1923–1924, he decided to study painting with Felice Carena at Accademia di Belle Arti di Ro ...

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Jack Hanlon Jack Clem Hanlon (February 15, 1916 – December 13, 2012) was an American child actor known for his role in '' Our Gang'' and silent films. According to ''Variety'', at the time of his death he was the oldest living person to appear in the ''Ou ...

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João Fragoso João Fragoso (27 April 1913 – 28 December 2000) was a Portuguese painter. His work was part of the Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics#Painting, painting event in the Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics, art competition ...

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John Farleigh John Farleigh (16 June 1900 – 30 March 1965), also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations of George Bernard Shaw's work ''The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Go ...

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John Wheatley John Wheatley (19 May 1869 – 12 May 1930) was a Scottish socialist politician. He was a prominent figure of the Red Clydeside era. Early life and career Wheatley was born to Thomas and Johanna Wheatley in Bonmahon, County Waterford, Ire ...

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Roy de Maistre Roy De Maistre CBE (27 March 18941 March 1968) was an Australian artist of international fame. He is renowned in Australian art for his early experimentation with "colour-music", and is recognised as the first Australian artist to use pure abst ...

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Ray Howard-Jones Rosemary "Ray" Howard-Jones (30 May 1903 – 25 June 1996) was a prolific Welsh painter best known for her impressionistic seascapes and paintings of the coastline of Wales, particularly of the areas around Skomer and Marloes. Early life and ...

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Frederic Whiting Frederic Whiting (1874 – 1 August 1962) was an English painter who had studied at the Académie Julian and taught at Heatherley School of Fine Art with Iain Macnab and Bernard Adams. His work was part of the painting event in the art co ...

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Alex Walter Diggelmann Alex Walter Diggelmann (August 20, 1902 – November 21, 1987) was a Swiss graphic artist and book designer best known for his sports posters. Diggelmann won three medals in the Olympic Games. He won a gold medal in 1936 for a poster en ...

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Bernard Cuzner Bernard Lionel Cuzner (1877 – 4 January 1956) was an England, English silversmith and product designer. Cuzner was born in Alcester in Warwickshire and initially trained as a watchmaker, before showing talent as a silversmith while taking e ...

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Josephine Cheesman Josephine Cheesman (13 September 1910 – 18 November 1997) was a British painter. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV ...

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Joyce Himsworth Joyce Rosemary Himsworth (19 August 1905 – 31 March 1989) was a British independent designer silversmith. From an early age she worked with her father, the polymath Joseph Beeston Himsworth (1874–1968) making small spoons and items of jewel ...

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Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz (1919–2005) was a Polish sculptor. His work was part of the Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics#Painting, painting event in the Art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics, art competition at the 1948 Summer Oly ...

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Sculpture

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Oskar Thiede Oskar Thiede (February 13, 1879 – November 22, 1961) was an Austrian sculptor. He was born and died in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal ...

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Edwin Grienauer Edwin Grienauer (March 7, 1893 – August 21, 1964) was an Austrian sculptor and medalist. He was born and died in Vienna. Life Edwin Grienauer was the son of cellist Karl Grienauer and opera singer Helene Schott. His father migrated to ...

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, , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Filippo Sgarlata , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Stanislav Binar , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Alessandro Manzo , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Omero Taddeini , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Thomas Wilkinson , , align="left", Reliefs The following sculptors took part: {, width="100%" , - valign="top" , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - bgcolor=gold , 1 , , align="left", ''Not awarded'' , , align="left", , - bgcolor=silver , 2 , , align="left", ''Not awarded'' , , align="left", , - bgcolor=#CC9966 , 3 , , align="left", Rosamund Fletcher , , align="left", Statues The following sculptors took part: {, width="100%" , - valign="top" , {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank !! Name !! Country , - bgcolor=gold , 1 , , align="left", Gustaf Nordahl , , align="left", , - bgcolor=silver , 2 , , align="left", Chintamoni Kar , , align="left", , - bgcolor=#CC9966 , 3 , , align="left",

Hubert Yencesse Hubert Yencesse (28 April 1900 – 4 October 1987), was a French sculptor. He secured 3rd place (Bronze Medal) in the Art Olympics of the year 1948 for his sculpture Swimmer. His first exhibition was in the year 1921 at the Salon d'Automne, and ...

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Emilio Greco Emilio Greco (11 October 1913 in Catania, Sicily – 5 April 1995) was an Italian people, Italian sculpture, sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet. He is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the wor ...

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Franciszek Strynkiewicz Franciszek Strynkiewicz (September 15, 1893 – November 20, 1996) was a Polish sculptor. He submitted some of his work into an unknown category of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the "Statues" category of the art compe ...

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Jerzy Bandura Jerzy Bandura (14 November 1915 – 19 October 1987) was a Polish sculptor. A poster he designed in 1947 won him an international award from the United Nations. His work entitled "Crawl" was also part of the sculpture event in the art comp ...

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Knud Nellemose Knud Nellemose (12 March 1908, Copenhagen – 14 January 1997, Copenhagen) was a Danish sculptor who is remembered for his figures of sportsmen and his statues of famous Danes.Margarete Markl Margarete Markl (30 May 1902 – 8 January 1981) was an Austrian sculptor. Her work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad ...

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Edmund Reitter Edmund Reitter (22 October 1845 – 15 March 1920) was an Austrian entomologist, writer and a collector. Biography Edmund Reitter was best known as an expert on the beetles of the Palaearctic. He was an imperial advisor and editor of the ...

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Dora Gordine Dora Gordine (8 June 1895 – 29 December 1991) was an Estonian Jewish Modernist figurative and portraitist sculptor. Her early career was influenced by the Noor Eesti (‘Young Estonia’) group of artists who favoured Art Nouveau. She moved ...

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David Evans David, Dave, or Dai Evans may refer to: Academics * Sir David Emrys Evans (1891–1966), Welsh classicist and university principal * David Evans (microbiologist) (1909–1984), British microbiologist * David Stanley Evans (1916–2004), British a ...

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Mary Morton Mary Morton (21 March 1879 – 15 June 1965) was a British sculptor. Early life and education Morton was born in Stroud, England on 21 March 1879. Her father was George Morton, a surgeon who was born around 1839 in the East Indies. She a ...

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Phyllis Bone Phyllis Mary Bone RSA (15 February 1894 – 12 July 1972) was a 20th-century Scottish sculptor. She has the particular claim to fame as being the first female Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy. Although primarily the creator of smal ...

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Desmond Broe Desmond Broe (1921 – 16 September 1968) was an Irish sculptor. Life His father, Leo, was a sculptor, with the family sculpting business run from a premises in Harold's Cross, Dublin. His sister, Irene, was also a sculptor. Broe attend ...

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May Power May Power (11 September 1903 – 1993) was an Irish sculptor. Early life and family May Power was born in Dublin on 11 September 1903. Her parents were the sculptor Albert Power, and Agnes (née Kelly). She had 6 brothers and 3 sisters. H ...

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Graciano Nepomuceno Graciano T. Nepomuceno (18 December 1881 – 30 December 1974) was a Filipino sculptor and woodcarver known for santo figures and genre sculptures. Background Graciano T. Nepomuceno was born in Trozo area in Binondo, Manila on 18 December 1 ...

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Hans Brandenberger Hans Brandenberger (28 June 1912 – 26 March 2003) was a Swiss sculptor, and medallist. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of th ...

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Olof Ahlberg Olof Ahlberg (18 November 1876 – 8 June 1956) was a Swedish sculptor. He is known for his human sculptures with classical and jugend features. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympic ...

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Karel Otáhal Karel Otáhal (19 January 1901 – 23 August 1972) was a Czech sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad a ...

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Jakub Obrovský Jakub Obrovský (December 24, 1882 – March 31, 1949) was a Czechoslovak artist, sculptor and writer. Biography Jakub Obrovský was born in Brno-Bystrc. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague with Celda Klouček, EK Liška and Sta ...

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Peter Peri Peter Peri is a British artist known for his work in painting and drawing. He lives and works in London, where he was born. Peri studied at Chelsea College of Art, London, graduating from the MA programme in 2003. He made his debut in 2003 at ...

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Leoncillo Leonardi Leoncillo Leonardi (18 November 1915 – 3 September 1968), commonly known as Leoncillo, was an Italian sculptor who worked principally in glazed ceramics, often large-scale, and often using vivid colours. Until the mid-1950s his work was mostl ...

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Marino Mazzacurati Renato Marino Mazzacurati (22 July 1907 – 18 September 1969) was an Italian painter and sculptor belonging to the modern movement of the ''Scuola romana (Roman School)'', of eclectic styles and able within his career span to represent the a ...

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Maurice Lambert Maurice Prosper Lambert RA (25 June 1901 – 17 August 1964) was a British sculptor. He was the son of the artist George Washington Lambert and the older brother of the composer and author Constant Lambert. Lambert is mostly known for his public ...

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René Iché René Iché (21 January 1897 – 23 December 1954) was a 20th-century French sculptor. Life and work René Iché was born in Sallèles-d'Aude, France. He fought in World War I, where he was injured and gassed. After the war, he earned a degre ...

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Siegfried Charoux Siegfried Joseph Charoux (15 November 1896 – 26 April 1967) was an artist, primarily a figurative sculptor working in bronze, stone, or terracotta. Born in Austria, he moved to England in 1935, where he became naturalised in 1946. Early and ...

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Wäinö Aaltonen Wäinö Valdemar Aaltonen (8 March 1894 – 30 May 1966) 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 Karinainen, Finla ...

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Norman Tyrrell Norman Tyrrell (1897–1948) was a British sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London ...

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Antoni Kenar Antoni Kenar (23 October 1906 – 19 February 1959) was a Polish sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV O ...

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Knud Nellemose Knud Nellemose (12 March 1908, Copenhagen – 14 January 1997, Copenhagen) was a Danish sculptor who is remembered for his figures of sportsmen and his statues of famous Danes.Filippo Sgarlata , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Ferdinand Opitz , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Edmund Moiret , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Albin Döbrich , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Karin Jarl-Sakellarios , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Jack Downing , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Charles Stanier , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", W. G. Webb , , align="left", , - , AC , , align="left", Gertrude Bohnert , , align="left",

References

{{Art competitions at the Summer Olympics 1948 Summer Olympics events

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

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