Richier

[ ree-shyey ]

noun

1. Ger·maine [zhe, r, -, men], 1904–59, French sculptor.

Example Sentences

His fellow sculptor, Germaine Richier, a Frenchwoman who fled to Switzerland as the war began, took a similar approach to bronze sculpture, casting pockmarked and injured figures whose bumpy surfaces recall the corpses of Pompeii.

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The two-floor, two-gallery Richier exhibition attempts to revive an artist whose mawkish figurative works are trapped in their own post-wartime capsule, despite promising early efforts and hints of further development cut short by death.

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The two-floor, two-gallery Richier exhibition attempts to revive an artist whose mawkish figurative works are trapped in their own post-wartime capsule, despite promising early efforts and hints of further development cut short by death.

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Scant, if any, attention is paid to other sculptors who, like Richier, attempted to modernize the human figure in the years after World War II by turning it variously angular, insectlike and ravaged or otherwise rough of surface, while maintaining an almost total — and homogenizing — loyalty to bronze.

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The earliest Richier works here give a partial but engaging picture of a promising young sculptor whose initial treatment of the figure is distinctive if conventional.

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