Léon-Ernest Drivier

Léon-Ernest Drivier studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Eustache Bernard, Félix-Joseph Barrias and Auguste Rodin is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Auguste Rodin and Charles Despiau are recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with Auguste Rodin. Works named in the authority record are Monument aux morts, Place de la République, Strasbourg. Work by Léon-Ernest Drivier is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Musée d'art moderne de Paris, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris and musée des années trente. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour.

He entered the École des Beaux-Arts, then worked from 1907 in the studio of Auguste Rodin. He was a friend of the sculptors Auguste de Niederhausern, Gaston Schnegg, Jane Poupelet and Antoine Bourdelle, among others. In 1918, he made a bust of France official winner. His first time was akin to neo-romanticism, and then came close to neo-classicism of Charles Despiau. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1943.

• La France apportant la paix et la prospérité aux colonies: a ten-meter gilded bronze statue, representing the warrior Athena with a spear, overlooking a pond at several levels, Porte Dorée in Paris. This statue was placed there for its proximity to the Museum of Colonial opened in 1931 for the International Colonial Exhibition. • Les Muses and La Joie de vivre, made to the Jardins du Trocadéro for the 1937 Exposition Universelle. • The Monument aux morts de Strasbourg on Place de la République, inaugurated in 1936 by French President Albert Lebrun. This is one of the few monuments dedicated to the dead pacifists of France.

Léon-Ernest Drivier was recorded at birth as Léon Ernest Drivier. The authorities additionally record the headings Leon Drivier, Léon Ernest Drivier, Leon-Ernest Drivier, Léon Drivier and Leon Ernest Drivier. His recorded language was French.

Léon-Ernest Drivier is recorded as having received Officer of the Legion of Honour. Formation and teaching. Drivier studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He trained under Eustache Bernard, Félix-Joseph Barrias and Auguste Rodin. His recorded influences include Auguste Rodin and Charles Despiau.