Agathon Léonard
Illustration — Photograph of Léonard Agathon van Weijdeveld • Illustration — "Tragic Pose from Le Jeu de l'escharpe" by Léonard Agathon Léonard or Léonard Agathon van Weydevelt (1841 Lille - 1923 Paris), was a French Art Nouveau sculptor. Léonard moved to Paris when quite young and studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris under Eugène Delaplanche. He became a member of the Société des Artistes Français in 1887 and a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1897.
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Agathon Léonard
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- Full name
- Léonard Agathon van Weydevelde.
- Born
- 1841. · Lille.
- Died
- 1923. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- sculptor.
- Movements
- Art Nouveau.
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Photograph of Léonard Agathon van Weijdeveld • Illustration — "Tragic Pose from Le Jeu de l'escharpe" by Léonard Agathon Léonard or Léonard Agathon van Weydevelt (1841 Lille - 1923 Paris), was a French Art Nouveau sculptor. Léonard moved to Paris when quite young and studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris under Eugène Delaplanche. He became a member of the Société des Artistes Français in 1887 and a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1897.
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Recorded at birth as Léonard Agathon van Weydevelde. Also worked under the name Agathon Léonard. Born at Lille in 1841, died in Paris in 1923.
Agathon Léonard studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The recorded working language is French. Work by Agathon Léonard is recorded in the collections of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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- Ingelore Böstge, Agathon Léonard: Le Geste Art Nouveau, Somogy Éditions D'Art (Paris, 2003)
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