Jean Baptiste Auguste Dampt (1854–1945) was a French sculptor, medalist, and jeweler.

Biography

Born in

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as the son of a cabinetmaker, Dampt studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, then in 1874 under the leadership of

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and

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at the

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...

in Paris . He exhibited for the first time at the Salon of the

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in 1876. In 1877 he took the deuxième

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

for sculpture at the Ecole. He completed his military service, then organized an Exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Gold Coast to promote art in its region. Dampt's work can be described as

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

; at the

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...

he is classified as

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. Some of Dampt's sculptures are exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon. In 1919 Dampt was appointed to chair #7 of the

Académie des Beaux-Arts An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...

. Dampt's students include the Americans

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, and

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, and the Swiss

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. The ''

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was an assistant.

Les Cinq

In 1895, Dampt was a founding member of the arts group ''Les Cinq'', which sought to apply new mechanical methods to furniture design. The four other founding members were architect

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, designer Felix Aubert, sculptor and craftsman

Alexandre Charpentier Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856–1909) was a French sculptor, medalist, craftsman, and cabinet-maker. Life and work From working-class origins and apprenticed to an engraver as a young man, he became a studio assistant to the innov ...

, and the painter

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. Architect

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would join in 1896, changing the group's name first to ''Les Six'' and then to ''L'Art pour tous'' with the later association of

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and others.

References

* This page translated from its French equivalent, accessed 4/22/2011

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dampt, Jean 1854 births 1945 deaths French medallists Prix de Rome for sculpture École des Beaux-Arts alumni Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Art Nouveau sculptors Art Nouveau medallists People from Côte-d'Or 20th-century French sculptors 20th-century French male artists 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors French cabinetmakers 19th-century French male artists