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Nicolas Joseph 'Claus' Cito (26 May 1882 – 10 October 1965) was a Georgette Bisdorff, "Claus Cito, der Bildhauer aus Bascharage"
''Ons stad'' No 60, 1999. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
Nicolas Joseph 'Claus' Cito (26 May 1882 – 10 October 1965) was a Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
ian sculptor
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 ...
educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (french: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - École supérieure des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles (ARBA-ESA), nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel), is an art school established in Br ...
in Brussels.
He is most notable for having created the original Gëlle Fra
The Monument of Remembrance (french: Monument du souvenir), usually known by the nickname of the ''Gëlle Fra'' (Luxembourgish for 'Golden Lady'), is a war memorial in Luxembourg City. It is dedicated to the thousands of Luxembourgers who vol ...
war memorial
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It has ...
, though his work can also be found at the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg
Notre-Dame Cathedral ( lb, Kathedral Notre-Dame, french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame, german: Kathedrale unserer lieben Frau) is the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It was originally a Jesuit church, and its co ...
. Along with Emile Hulten and Charles Kohl, he worked on the bas-reliefs of the National Resistance Museum in Esch-sur-Alzette
Esch-sur-Alzette (; lb, Esch-Uelzecht ; german: Esch an der Alzette or ''Esch an der Alzig'') is the second city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's second-most populous commune, with a population of 35,040 inhabitants, . It lies ...
, Luxembourg.
In 1909, Cito shared the coveted Prix Grand-duc Adolphe The Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe (Grand-Duke Adolphe Prize) is a Luxembourgian art award awarded every year to one or more artists exhibiting at the ''Salon Artistique'' of the ''Cercle artistique de Luxembourg'' (CAL).
The award is named after Adolphe, ...
with the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Wercollier.
Cito was a cofounder of the Luxembourg secession movement in 1926 which promoted Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
. He exhibited at the first salon in 1927.''Ons stad'' No 60, 1999. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
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* 1882 births 1965 deaths People from Käerjeng Luxembourgian sculptors Luxembourgian artists 20th-century Luxembourgian sculptors {{Luxembourg-sculptor-stub