Maggy Stein (13 April 1931 – 11 February 1999) was a Luxembourgish sculptor.

Biography

Maggy Stein was born in the

Luxembourg City Luxembourg (; ; ), also known as Luxembourg City ( or ; ; or ), is the capital city of Luxembourg and the Communes of Luxembourg, country's most populous commune. Standing at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in southern Luxe ...

in 1931 to the former college director Jean-Pierre Stein. Stein attended

Lucien Wercollier Lucien Wercollier (26 July 1908 – 24 April 2002) was a sculptor from Luxembourg. While he worked primarily in bronze and marble, some of his work is sculpted in wood, alabaster, stone and onyx. His public monuments in bronze and marble are of ...

's sculpture course at the Lycée des arts et métiers from 1947 to 1949. She then moved to the

Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo (, ; ) was a Belgian colonial empire, Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Repu ...

with her first husband in 1950 where they lived for three years. The couple had three daughters born from 1951 to 1959. Stein returned to Wercollier's course in 1957 and began to exhibit her work in 1962. From 1962, Maggy Stein organized exhibitions of her sculptures and participated in exhibitions with other artists nationally and internationally. Stein worked in marble, bronze, stone, and occasionally wood. Her monumental sculpture commissioned by the Luxembourg state is the 2.50 meter tall travertine sculpture known as ''La Grande Isis'' which was put in place in 1980 to the south of the Notre Dame Cathedral. Two other sculptures of hers are on loan to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Stein married sculptor Jean-Pierre Georg (1926–2004) in 1980 and they set up their workshops in the farm they restored in Fennange. Stein died in

Esch-sur-Alzette Esch-sur-Alzette (, ; ; or ''Esch an der Alzig'') is a city in Luxembourg and the country's List of communes of Luxembourg by population, second-most populous commune, with a population of 36,625 inhabitants, . It lies in the south-west of the ...

. She is remembered in the art gallery in

Bettembourg Castle Bettembourg Castle (Luxembourgish: ''Schlass Beetebuerg''; ) located in the centre of Bettembourg in the south of Luxembourg has a history starting in 1733 when it was built as the residence of a farming family. Today it houses the offices and ser ...

which is named in her honour.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stein, Maggy 1931 births 1999 deaths Luxembourgian women sculptors Luxembourgian sculptors Artists from Luxembourg City