Evstafiev-Sculptor Jean Freour Batz 2005

Jean Fréour (8 August 1919 – 11 June 2010) was a prominent Breton

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

. Fréour was born in Nantes. He studied at the

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School of the Fine arts and attended the classes of Louis-Henry Bouchard in the national School of the Fine arts in

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. He is a member of the Breton artistic movement Seiz Breur. In the mid-1950s he settled in the Breton south coast town of

Batz-sur-Mer Batz-sur-Mer (, literally ''Batz on Sea''; br, Bourc'h-Baz) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. The commune is situated on a former island that, until around the 9th century, was separate from the mainland at Gu ...

. For a period of a year, he was mayor of the town. In his work, Fréour uses different materials, including the

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, and

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. His sculptures often carry a stamp of Breton identity impregnated with

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. He is the author of the statue of Anne of Brittany (made of bronze and erected in the city of Nantes in 2002).

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gives details of Fréours work.

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Bronze statue Anne de Bretagne by Jean Fréour

{{DEFAULTSORT:Freour, Jean 1919 births 20th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 21st-century French sculptors 21st-century French male artists Breton artists Artists from Nantes 2010 deaths