Paul Cornet

Paul Cornet was a French sculptor, painter, and teacher. He was known for his statues, nudes sculptures, busts, and monuments. He taught at the Académie Scandinave in Paris for many years.

Early life, and education

Paul Cornet was born on 18 March 1892, in Paris, France, the son of genre painter . He studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, as well as under sculptor Camille Debert.
He married in November 1919, Elna Lübschitz, the daughter of the Danish painter .

Career

Cornet was a teacher at the Académie Scandinave a private art school in Paris, from 1929 to 1935.
He initially worked in a cubist style on his sculptures, and drew inspiration from Egyptian sculpture. Later he worked in a more realism style.
From 1954 to 1955, Cornet worked on the Tulle Memorial, a monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of World War II in Tulle in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Starting in 1964, Cornet exhibited with the le Groupe des Neuf at the Galerie Vendôme in Paris, of which group he was one of the co-founders a year earlier. Cornet sculpted a large number of monumental portraits for the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, as well as a sculpture for the Champ de Juillet in Limoges, for the Sèvres manufacture in Luxeuil-les-Bains, for the Orangerie in Meudon in Île-de-France, and a bronze for the Panthéon in Paris.
Cornet was recognized for his work and awarded the Wildenstein prize in 1967, and Paul-Louis Weiller prize in 1972.

Death and legacy

Cornet died on either the 10th or 15th of April 1977, in Saint-Martin-de-Nigelles in Centre-Val de Loire, France.
His work can be found in museum collections, including Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.