Lucien Alcide Constant Brasseur (30 August 1878 – 9 February 1960) was a French sculptor.
Biography
Brasseur was born in
Saultain in the
Nord region. He graduated from the
École des Beaux-Arts
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in 1894 and took first prize in the
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 in 1905.
Between the wars, he made memorials for several municipalities in Northern France, including a major monument in
Tourcoing
Tourcoing (; nl, Toerkonje ; vls, Terkoeje; pcd, Tourco) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord. Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubai ...
and, perhaps his best-known, in
Havrincourt
Havrincourt () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in Hauts-de-France in France. The inhabitants are called ''Havrincourtois''.
Situation
The village lies about 14 kilometres south-west of Cambrai near the Havrincourt service area on ...
, which includes a self-portrait. He also did memorials in
Oisy-le-Verger and
Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer (; vls, Sint-Omaars) is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France.
It is west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais, and is located in the Artois province. The town is named after Saint Audoma ...
and reliefs for the train station in
Brest
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. In 1937, he created a statue for the
Palais de Chaillot
The Palais de Chaillot () is a building at the top of the in the Trocadéro area in the 16th ''arrondissement'' of Paris, France.
For the Exposition Internationale of 1937, the old 1878 Palais du Trocadéro was partly demolished and partly ...
at the
Exposition Universelle.
He is buried at the
Cimetière parisien de Bagneux.
Monuments aux morts
Other works
His other works include:
References
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1878 births
1960 deaths
People from Nord (French department)
Prix de Rome for sculpture
20th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors