Évariste Jonchère (8 July 1892, in
Coulonges-les-Hérolles, Vienne – 1956, in
Paris
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) was a French sculptor.
He studied with
Antonin Mercié
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 in Toulouse – December 12, 1916 in Paris), was a French Sculpture, sculptor, Medalist, medallist and Painting, painter.
Biography
Mercié entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ...
and
Jean Boucher at the
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine
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, then received the
Grand 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 1925. Winning the
Prix de l'Indochine in 1932 took him for two years to Vietnam, then Manchuria, Japan, San Francisco and Newfoundland. Back in Paris he exhibited at the Exposition universelle of 1937.
From 1938 to 1944, he was director of the
École des Beaux Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi.
[Lindy Joubert ''Educating in the Arts: The Asian Experience: Twenty-Four Essays'' 2008 Page 43 - "A rare example was in Vietnam in 1937, when sculptor Evariste Jonchère (1892–1956) came from France and took over the Directorship of the École until 1945. While his own work was more modernist than that of Tardieu, the previous .."]
References
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People from Vienne (department)
1892 births
1956 deaths
20th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Prix de Rome for sculpture
Burials at Passy Cemetery