Bernadette Kanter is a French sculptor born in
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
History
Evidence of ancient habitation has been found on and around the site of modern-day Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray including ...
(
Normandy
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Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...
) in 1950, her preferred material is bronze.
Biography
In 1974, after studying at the College of artistic careers of Paris (ICART), at the
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
École or Ecole may refer to:
* 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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in Paris, and the
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
The Académie de la Grande Chaumière () is an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France.
History
The school was founded in 1904 by the Catalan painter Claudio Castelucho on the rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, near the A ...
in
Montparnasse
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in Paris, Kanter established her studio in
Buchelay
Buchelay () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the ÃŽle-de-France region in north-central France.
Population
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*Communes of the Yvelines department
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, near Paris.
In addition she continued to study
gemology
Gemology or gemmology is the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstone materials. It is a specific interdisciplinary branch of mineralogy. Some jewellery, jewelers (and many non-jewelers) are academically trained gemologists and are qua ...
and gained work experience in workshops of sculpture, sculpting, molding, casting and direct carving.
In 2002 Kanter created ''Dogs of the bridge guard'' at
Mantes-la-Jolie
Mantes-la-Jolie (, often informally called Mantes) is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines Departments of France, department in the ÃŽle-de-France Regions of France, region of north-central France. It is located to the west of Paris, f ...
, near Paris,
which consists of two bronze sculptures guarding the entrance to the city after the bridge Peronnet. In 2004 she created an aircraft-bird figure for
Aérospatiale
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, ''Nungesser and Colis''.
Works
* 1990 ''The music'' museum Neunkirchen, (Germany)
* 1991 ''Order and force'' Ministry of Interior, mural for the hall of the police station at Nogent-sur-Marne
* 1993 ''The Rooster'' Urban District of Mantes-la-Jolie
* 1994 ''Cockfight'' Buchelay
* 1998 ''The large eagle'' Buchelay
* 1998 ''City Council signalitiques'' Buchelay, seven terracotta panels for la Maison pour tous
* 1998 ''Fontaine fishermen'' Belgium
* 2000 ''Big horse'' Vésinet
* 2002 ''The Bridge guard dogs'' Mantes-la-Jolie
* 2004 ''Nungesser and Colis'' Aérospatiale
* 2007 ''Fresco Shut' Fat'' (North-East of Jerusalem) Limay Town Hall
Awards
* 1988 Second Grand-Prix at the International Biennial of Quebec (Canada)
* 1995 Gold Medal at the National exhibition of wildlife artists
* 1999 Silver Medal of the Academy of Arts Sciences and Letters in Paris
* 2001 Gold Medal for Sculpture French artists Sociétaires Taylor Foundation
References
External links
# https://web.archive.org/web/20110720222450/http://mantes.histoire.free.fr/item.php?id=955
# http://www.fondationtaylor.com/
# http://www.grande-chaumiere.fr/
# https://web.archive.org/web/20101203111414/http://www.icartparis.com/
# https://web.archive.org/web/20110409124245/http://www.ensba.fr/
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kanter, Bernadette
1950 births
Living people
Sculptors from Paris
20th-century French sculptors
20th-century French women artists
21st-century French sculptors
21st-century French women artists
Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière