Henri-Léon Gréber
Illustration — Gréber in 1908 • Illustration — J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain by Henri-Léon Gréber in Kansas City, Missouri • Illustration — The WWI monument aux morts by Henri-Léon Gréber at Beauvais (Oise), France Henri-Léon Greber (28 May 1854 – 4 June 1941) was a French sculptor, and medallist. His son was the architect Jacques Gréber. Henri-Léon Gréber was active in the United States, he produced a fountain sculpture of four equestrian statues for Harbor Hill in 1910, (restored in 1957 and installed at Mill Creek Park, adjacent to the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri) and the copy of The Kiss in the Philadelphia Rodin Museum.
Also recorded as Henri Greber · Henri Léon Greber · Henri-Leon Greber · Henri Leon Greber
Henri-Léon Gréber

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- Born
- 1854 · Beauvais.
- Died
- 1941 · 16th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor · medalist · ceramicist · artist
- Fields
- art of sculpture
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Teachers
- Antonin Mercié
- Known for
- Monument to Emmanuel Frémiet
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Gréber in 1908 • Illustration — J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain by Henri-Léon Gréber in Kansas City, Missouri • Illustration — The WWI monument aux morts by Henri-Léon Gréber at Beauvais (Oise), France Henri-Léon Greber (28 May 1854 – 4 June 1941) was a French sculptor, and medallist. His son was the architect Jacques Gréber. Henri-Léon Gréber was active in the United States, he produced a fountain sculpture of four equestrian statues for Harbor Hill in 1910, (restored in 1957 and installed at Mill Creek Park, adjacent to the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri) and the copy of The Kiss in the Philadelphia Rodin Museum.
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Henri-Léon Gréber studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Antonin Mercié is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are Monument to Emmanuel Frémiet. Work by Henri-Léon Gréber is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
• Monument aux morts (Oise) • The Dancing Sprites is a bronze sculpture created in 1900. It is in the middle of a concrete base that forms the centre of a fountain. It can be found on California Street of Huntington Park at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco. It was donated to the city by Mrs. James Flood in 1942 and is owned by the San Francisco Arts Commission. The sculpture features three nude children with a ribbon draped around them. They are holding hands and dancing in a circle. • The Mill Creek Park Fountain (previously titled the J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain) is located at Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd and Mill Creek Parkway, at the east entrance of the popular Country Club Plaza district in Kansas City, Missouri. The fountain is the most famous and most-photographed fountain in Kansas City. The four equestrian statues, four children and fish statues wheat statue (in the center) were sculpted in 1910 to adorn the Harbor Hill mansion of Clarence Mackay, an American financier, in Long Island, New York. The fountain was vandalized and parts of it went missing. In 1951, the Nichols family initiated the purchase and installation of the fountain, which was funded by not only the family, but also Kansas City as well as private contributions including a collection by Kansas City area school children. It was refurbished by Herman Frederick Simon and dedicated in 1960 as the J. C. Nichols Memorial Fountain. It has four heroic equestrians that have been rumoured to represent the four mighty rivers: the Mississippi River (fighting an alligator), the Seine, the Rhine, and the Volga River (with the bear). In 2014, the fountain underwent an extensive renovation funded by the Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation. In the summer of 2020, the Kansas City community called for a title change to no longer celebrate J.C. Nichols based on the fact that he had included redlining rules in the covenants for his housing developments. The massive 80 foot wide fountains title is the Mill Creek Park Fountain.

Emmanuel Frémiet sculpte la version miniature du « Dénicheur d’oursons ». Le socle évoque deux autres statues de
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1854
Henri-Léon Gréber born at Beauvais.
1913
Monument to Emmanuel Frémiet is dated 1913.
1941
Henri-Léon Gréber died at 16th arrondissement of Paris.
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Beauvais.
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- 1.Dossier Légion d'honneur sur la base Léonore.
- 2.Fiche sur Olympedia
- 3.Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Spink & Son Ltd. 1923.
- 4.Dossier d'Henri-Léon Gréber sur la base Léonore.
- 5.source insuffisante Archives de la ville de Fontenay-aux-Roses.
- 6.Archives de Paris , acte de décès , année 1941 (vue 22/31).
- 7.Registre journalier d'inhumation du cimetière des Batignolles de 1941 en date du 6 juin (page 18/31).
- 8.Note de Charles Fauqueux (1879-1968) relative à la conférence sur Pierre Gréber à propos de ses poteries du Beauvaisis prononcée au Comité des loisirs de Beauvais le , cité in Jean Cartier, « Une dynastie de céramistes-sculpteurs : les Greber », ABC, , , .
- 9.Notice sur le site Anosgrandshommes.musee-orsay.fr.
- 10.memoirevive.besancon.fr.
- 11.Notice du musée d'Orsay.
- 12.memorial14-18.paris.fr.
- 13.Notice du musée d'Orsay.
- 14.Notice du musée d'Orsay.
- 15.Notice du musée d'Orsay.
- 16.Notice du musée d'Orsay.
- 17.Notice du musée d'Orsay.
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- Jean Cartier, « Une dynastie de céramistes-sculpteurs : les Greber », ABC, , , .
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The authorities additionally record the headings Henri Greber, Henri Léon Greber, Henri-Leon Greber and Henri Leon Greber. His recorded language was French. One child is recorded: Jacques Gréber. Gréber received Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Musée d'Orsay and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
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