Philippe Grass


Philippe Grass was a French sculptor.

Career

Born in Wolxheim, Alsace, Grass was a pupil of Landolin Ohmacht and Baron François Joseph Bosio. From 1820 to 1823, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. After his return to Alsace, he was appointed sculptor of the Fondation de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg. In 1865, he became a knight of the Legion of Honour. He made the portrait of his friend Émile Souvestre on his tomb on the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
He died in Strasbourg.

Selected works

Statue du général Jean-Baptiste Kléber, bronze, 1840Statue du préfet Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, 1845, in StrasbourgJugement dernier, on the facade of the cathedral of StrasbourgIcare déployant ses ailes, 1831Suzanne au bain, 1834Jeune Paysanne, 1839