European Art, 1600 to the Present: Biographies

A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art The Oxford Dictionary of Art Further reading

Zwobada, Jacques

A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art | 1999 | | Copyright

Zwobada, Jacques (1900–1967). French sculptor. He was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine and studied briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His early inspiration was Rodin, as can be seen in his monument to Simon Bolivar (1933) at Quito in Ecuador. In about 1935 he abandoned sculpture and taught drawing in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Julian. He took up sculpture again in about 1950, working in a semi-abstract style characterized by a rhythmical interplay of masses and voids. In 1956 his wife died suddenly and he devoted most of the rest of his career to creating a funerary monument to her at Mentana, near Rome, where he had bought property shortly before her death. The monument consists of several figures and groups arranged in a semi-circle, with various subsidiary pieces. The last group he added, shortly before his own death, was the symbolically apt Orpheus and Eurydice.

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

IAN CHILVERS. "Zwobada, Jacques." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

IAN CHILVERS. "Zwobada, Jacques." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-ZwobadaJacques.html

IAN CHILVERS. "Zwobada, Jacques." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-ZwobadaJacques.html

Learn more about citation styles

Zwobada, Jacques

The Oxford Dictionary of Art | 2004 | | Copyright

Zwobada, Jacques (b Neuilly-sur-Seine, 6 Aug. 1900; d Fontenay-aux-Roses, nr. Paris, 1967). French sculptor. His early inspiration was Rodin, as can be seen in his monument to Simon Bolivar (1933) in Quito, Ecuador. In about 1935 he abandoned sculpture and taught drawing in Paris for several years, but in about 1950 he returned to sculpture, working in a semi-abstract style characterized by a rhythmic interplay of masses and voids. In 1956 his wife died suddenly and he devoted most of the rest of his career to creating a funerary monument to her at Mentana, near Rome, where he had bought property shortly before her death. The monument consists of several figures and groups arranged in a semi-circle, with various subsidiary groups. The last group he added, shortly before his own death, was the symbolically apt Orpheus and Eurydice.

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

IAN CHILVERS. "Zwobada, Jacques." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

IAN CHILVERS. "Zwobada, Jacques." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-ZwobadaJacques.html

IAN CHILVERS. "Zwobada, Jacques." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-ZwobadaJacques.html

Learn more about citation styles