Louis Jehotte (7 November 1803 or 1804 – 3 February 1884) was a prominent
Belgian
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sculptor working in a realist tradition that was inflected, who was responsible for the bronze
equestrian monument to
Charlemagne
Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Holy ...
erected on the in
Liège
Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.
The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...
, Belgium, in 1867. His bronze ''
Cain Cursed'' stands outside the
Academy Palace
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, and his statue of
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Prince Charles Alexander Emanuel of Lorraine (french: Charles Alexandre Emanuel, Prince de Lorraine; german: Karl Alexander von Lothringen und Bar; 12 December 1712 in Lunéville – 4 July 1780 in Tervuren) was a Lorraine-born Austrian general a ...
on the current /, both in Brussels.
His father Léonard Jehotte (Herstal, 1 August 1772 – Maastricht, 1 August (!) 1851) was an engraver at the mint, in Liège. His son Louis was born in Paris.
Université de Liège (Belgique) – Collections artistiques
/ref>[According to ''Thieme-Becker'', Vol. 18, 1925, p. 494 and ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon'', 25th. CD-ROM-Edition 2007 his birthplace was Liège.] and studied at the Académie de dessin at Liège under François Joseph Dewandre. He taught sculpture at the Brussels 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 ...
.
Notes
External links
Jacques Stiennon, 1995. "Les arts plastiques", ''Wallonie: Atouts et références d'une Région'', Freddy Joris, editor, (Gouvernement wallon, Namur)
1804 births
1884 deaths
19th-century Belgian sculptors
19th-century Belgian male artists
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