History Hop Tags - Sculptor

1831-03-02

John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission

1879-02-18

Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty

1400-12-22

Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)

1435-10-20

Andrea Della Robbia, Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca

1452-04-15

Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary

1469-05-19

Giovanni della Robbia, Italian sculptor

1493-11-12

Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)

1500-11-01

Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)

1511-06-18

Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect

1527-11-18

Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor

1577-09-06

Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect (Aanbidding of the Point)

1595-11-27

Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect

1597-01-12

François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)

1598-07-31

Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)

1598-12-07

Giovanni Bernini, Naples, Kingdom of Naples, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), (d. 1680)

1601-03-19

Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada)

1609-08-30

Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised

1612-09-28

Michel Anguier, French sculptor

1625-06-06

Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor

1625-11-20

Artus II Quellinus "the Young", Flemish sculptor, baptised

1637-10-20

Nicolaas van der Veken, Flemish sculptor (confessional chairs)

1640-09-29

Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized

1648-04-04

Grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver

1652-07-02

Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans)

1652-08-10

Peterus I Scheemaeckers, Flemish sculptor (tomb stones)

1658-01-08

Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Descente de Croix)

1660-05-20

Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)

1669-07-04

Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor

1677-04-25

Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly)

1682-04-22

Willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter

1684-02-24

Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)

1686-04-28

Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)

1688-09-12

Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)

1697-03-30

John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor

1700-06-04

Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor

1700-10-10

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)

1706-02-12

Josef Christian, German sculptor

1710-05-23

Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures)

1714-01-26

Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage)

1714-01-28

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon)

1716-12-01

Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)

1717-06-20

Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)

1722-07-16

Joseph Wilton, sculptor

1731-12-26

Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Town Hall of Westzaan)

1734-03-01

Pieter Valck[x], South Netherland sculptor

1737-08-11

Joseph Nollekins, London, sculptor

1740-06-18

Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor

1740-09-07

Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)

1740-11-24

John Bacon, English sculptor

1741-03-20

Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)

1742-10-12

Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor

1753-11-06

Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)

1755-07-06

John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)

1757-11-01

Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor

1764-05-20

J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer

1768-11-13

Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)

1770-11-19

Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion)

1770-11-19

Bertel Thowwaldsen, Danish sculptor

1777-01-02

Christian D Rauch, German sculptor

1788-03-12

Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor

1790-06-19

John Gibson, British (?) sculptor

1792-02-23

Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor

1795-02-10

Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor

1796-09-25

Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)

1805-06-29

Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)

1805-09-06

Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function)

1807-02-08

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)

1808-02-26

Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)

1810-07-11

Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor

1810-12-13

Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)

1814-03-22

Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)

1815-02-21

Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor

1816-07-11

French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect

1817-03-01

Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)

1819-06-03

Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer

1824-05-11

Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)

1827-05-11

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)

1828-01-28

Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor

1830-10-09

Harriet Hosmer, sculptor

1830-11-23

Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor

1831-04-12

Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor

1831-09-07

Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)

1832-01-06

Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)

1834-07-19

Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter, sculptor and artist

1834-08-02

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)

1835-01-03

Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor

1837-10-18

Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter

1840-11-12

Auguste Rodin, Meudon, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), (d. 1917)

1841-02-25

Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor

1841-04-13

Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)

1843-10-21

Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great)

1846-08-23

Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)

1847-10-06

Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor

1848-03-01

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece)

1849-06-08

Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument)

1850-04-20

Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man)

1854-08-12

Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith

1855-07-30

James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"

1857-02-18

Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor

1858-06-20

Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)

1858-09-12

Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor

1860-02-18

Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa)

1860-02-21

Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)

1860-04-29

Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk)

1861-09-10

Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)

1861-10-04

Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West

1861-10-30

Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)

1861-12-08

Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)

1863-05-24

George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)

1864-06-20

Worm Pander, sculptor

1864-9-07

Emile Chautard, The Blind Sculptor

1865-12-16

Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor

1866-06-13

Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Trade scholarship)

1866-08-30

Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor

1867-03-25

John Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)

1867-07-08

Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg)

1868-07-28

George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor

1869-04-11

Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)

1870-01-11

Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)

1870-02-10

Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter

1872-03-25

Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)

1873-05-10

Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor

1874-07-10

Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)

1875-06-23

Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)

1876-01-01

Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3rd monument)

1876-02-21

Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X)

1876-11-05

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)

1878-09-16

Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes)

1879-04-11

Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo)

1879-04-19

Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz)

1880-11-10

Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)

1881-01-04

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)

1882-02-22

Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)

1882-03-19

Gaston Lachaise, US sculptor (Standing Woman)

1882-05-13

Georges Braque, Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, French cubist painter and sculptor (Bike)

1882-08-02

Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Virgin Doll)

1882-08-18

Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor

1883-03-30

Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)

1883-08-15

Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962)

1884-02-26

Hildo Krop, Dutch modernistic sculptor

1884-05-28

Theo(door) van Reijn, Dutch sculptor/lithographer

1884-07-12

Amedeo Modigliani, Italy, painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude)

1884-10-16

Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)

1885-07-11

Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter

1885-09-05

John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (National monument on the Dam)

1885-11-06

Emiel Poetou, Flemish sculptor

1886-01-18

Antoine Pevsner, French sculptor

1887-02-28

William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)

1887-03-14

George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter

1887-03-21

Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor

1887-03-30

Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)

1887-05-30

Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer

1887-07-28

Marcel Duchamp, Blainville-Crevon, French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase)

1887-09-15

Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss sculptor, artist and poet

1887-09-16

Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor

1887-11-15

Georgia O'Keefe, Sun Prairie Wisc, sculptor/painter (Cow's Skull)

1888-01-23

Gilbert Ledward, British sculptor

1888-03-18

Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor

1888-08-13

Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)

1888-09-04

Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor

1889-01-19

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Davos Switzerland, painter, sculptor and dancer

1889-06-27

Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor

1889-10-14

Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor

1890-05-26

Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudes/portraits)

1890-07-14

Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City)

1890-08-05

Naum Gabo, [Pevsner], Russian/US sculptor (Stillife Flower)

1890-08-11

Erich Wichman, Dutch fascist painter/sculptor

1891-04-02

Max Ernst, Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism)

1891-08-22

Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US painter/cubist sculptor

1892-02-29

Augusta Savage (Fells), Green Cove Springs Florida, African-American sculptor and equal rights advocate

1892-09-15

Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)

1893-04-08

Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit)

1893-04-20

Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)

1894-04-10

Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle)

1894-08-17

Johan Polet, Dutch sculptor

1894-08-28

Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower)

1895-07-20

László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)

1895-11-11

Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor

1896-12-15

Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor

1897-01-21

René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)

1897-03-24

Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor

1897-04-19

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor

1897-12-04

Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)

1898-07-22

Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles)

1898-07-30

Henry Moore, England, sculptor (Vertebrae)

1898-08-08

Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans)

1899-05-08

Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter

1899-09-23

Louise Nevelson, Kiev, Russia, sculptor (Sky Cathedral)

1900-03-01

Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM

1900-07-19

Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor

1900-11-14

Clara Fasano, sculptor

1900-12-15

Francesco Messina, sculptor

1901-02-27

Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter

1901-07-31

Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor (Landscape with 2 Personages)

1901-10-10

Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor

1902-05-12

Heinrich Kirchner, German sculptor

1903-01-10

Barbara Hepworth, English abstract sculptor/actress (Rescued by Rover)

1903-02-03

Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor

1904-01-18

Henri-Georges Adam, French etcher/painter/sculptor (Grand Nude)

1904-07-27

Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987

1904-11-17

Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal)

1906-01-06

Jaap Wagemaker, [Adrian B], Dutch sculptor

1906-01-18

Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (Venus de Six-Tours)

1907-01-05

Willi Soukop, sculptor and member of Royal Academy of Arts

1907-02-16

Henri van Albada, Belgian sculptor (Charles V)

1907-04-12

Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)

1908-08-23

Hannah Frank, Scottish Artist and Sculptor

1908-11-23

Leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter

1908-12-22

Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician (Ruban Sans Fin)

1909-02-21

Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor

1909-04-30

F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d. 1992)

1910-03-12

Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor

1911-03-25

Willy Anthoons, Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing)

1911-06-04

Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor

1911-12-25

Louise Bourgeois, sculptor

1912-04-29

Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor

1912-06-04

Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (great iron sculptures)

1912-06-17

Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist (Auschwitz-monument)

1912-09-23

Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)

1913-11-02

Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor

1914-03-04

Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)

1914-06-26

John J "John" Beautiful Garden, sculptor

1915-03-12

Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/abstract painter

1915-04-13

Tom Greenshields, sculptor

1915-04-15

Elizabeth Catlett, Washington D.C., sculptor and print maker (Mother and Child), (d. 2012)

1915-05-06

May Henriquez-Alvarez, Curacao, sculptor

1915-08-02

Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter

1915-08-30

Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor

1915-11-11

Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor

1915-12-29

John P W Meefout, Dutch sculptor (Laying Woman)

1916-07-18

Kenneth Armitage, English sculptor

1917-09-12

Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist

1917-10-05

Robert Adams, English sculptor

1919-04-15

Elizabeth Catelett, sculptor/lithographer

1919-04-27

Walter Ritchie, sculptor

1920-07-23

Marcel Maeyer, [de Maeyer], Belgian sculptor/graphic artist

1920-10-06

Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)

1921-04-06

Franta Belsky, British sculptor

1922-01-21

Jean P Vroom, Dutch sculptor

1922-04-26

Pol Bury, Belgian sculptor

1922-10-18

Richard Stankiewicz, US sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis)

1922-12-01

Geraldine McCulloug, Maywood Ill, painter/sculptor (Phoenix)

1923-06-12

Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor (Great spiral)

1923-12-13

Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain, painter, sculptor, and theorist (Dau al Set), (d. 2012)

1923-12-18

Lotti [Charlotte] van der Gaag, Dutch sculptor/painter

1924-01-12

Jan Willem Radecker, sculptor/son of John Raedecker

1924-03-07

Eduardo Paolozzi, British sculptor (Hydra)

1924-03-20

Hermann Guggiari, Paraguay, engineer and sculptor (Rejas, NNUU)(d.2012)

1924-04-05

Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist/sculptor

1924-06-20

Fritz Koenig, Koenig's Sphere: The German Sculptor Fritz Koenig at Ground Zero

1924-11-26

George Segal, New York, American painter and sculptor of lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)

1924-11-27

Theresa R van der Pant, sculptor

1925-01-17

Duane Hanson, US sculptor

1925-05-22

Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (movement objects)

1925-10-26

Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor/novelist (Brief American)

1927-01-20

Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor/ceramist

1927-02-09

Norman Adams, painter/ceramic sculptor

1927-03-10

Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer/painter/sculptor

1927-07-13

Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor

1927-10-23

Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Roxy)

1927-10-27

Edward Ralph Keinholz, sculptor

1928-01-31

Robert Clatworthy, sculptor

1928-04-28

Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter

1928-05-11

Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor

1928-06-03

Donald Judd, US, sculptor (minimal art)

1928-07-11

Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Jonas & the Whale)

1928-10-12

Al Held, US, painter/sculptor (hard edge-style)

1928-10-27

Stefan Wewerka, German architect/sculptor

1929-02-09

Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)

1930-05-15

Jasper Johns, Augusta, Ga, painter/sculptor (Green Target)

1930-05-22

Marisol (Maria Sol) Escobar, Paris France, Venezuelan sculptor

1930-06-12

Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor (KLM-Schiphol)

1930-06-19

Bryan Kneale, British sculptor

1930-07-20

Arthur U Spronken, sculptor

1930-10-29

Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)

1930-11-14

Dame Elisabeth Frink, Thurlow, Suffolk, English sculptor and printmaker

1930-11-16

Alice Adams, sculptor

1931-02-09

Robert Morris, sculptor

1931-02-23

Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist and sculptor (Great American Nudes) (d. 2004)

1931-07-11

Herman de Vries, Dutch sculptor

1932-01-12

Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer

1933-03-04

John W Mills, British sculptor

1933-04-01

Dan Flavin, US minimalist sculptor

1933-09-28

Miguel Berrocal, Sculptor (d. 2006)

1934-05-21

Phillip King, British sculptor

1935-09-12

Richard H Hunt, Chicago, sculptor (Pyramidal Construction)

1935-09-16

Carl Andre, US sculptor (minimal/conceptual art)

1936-01-11

Eve Hesse, Hamburg Germany, German born Jewish-American sculptor.

1936-02-04

Daan van Golden, Dutch sculptor

1939-02-04

Jacques Charlier, Belgian sculptor

1939-02-08

Gerrit Lakmaaker, sculptor/painter (Leidsepleingroep)

1939-03-17

Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)

1939-11-02

Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist

1940-04-20

Jan Cremer, Dutch writer/sculptor (I, John Cremer)

1941-03-09

Ger van Each, sculptor

1941-05-09

Jan Dibbets, sculptor/artist (Dutch Mountains)

1941-05-26

John Kaufman, sculptor

1941-11-21

George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor

1941-11-24

John de Andrea, US sculptor

1943-06-25

Gerrit "Ger" Zijlstra, sculptor

1944-01-09

Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (d. 2002)

1945-11-23

Jerry Harris, American sculptor

1946-01-24

Hubert M "Jubi" Kirindongo, Curacaos sculptor/painter

1948-09-23

Rob van Koningsbruggen, sculptor

1949-08-15

Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor

1950-08-30

Antony Gormley, London England, British sculptor (Angel of the North)

1952-11-03

Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor

1954-03-12

Anish Kapoor, Mumbai India, Indian born British sculptor

1955-07-18

Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor

1956-09-17

Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher

1957-02-25

Jane Ackroyd, British sculptor

1967-05-19

Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor

1971-01-04

Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese artist, sculptor

1976-10-01

Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor

1979-07-18

Nir Studnitski, Memory Sculptor

1875-12-15

Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (41) weds Jeanne-Emilie Baheux Puysieux in Newport, Rhode Island

1876-12-29

Frederic A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie

1917-01-29

Sculptor Auguste Rodin (76) weds Rose Beuret

1930-06-21

"Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (19) weds sculptor Blair Gordon Newell

1978-09-30

Actress Meryl Streep (29) weds sculptor Don Gummer (31) in Mason's Island, Connecticut

1992-05-23

Actress Anjelica Huston (40) weds sculptor Robert Graham (54)

2005-08-30

"Squeeze" band founder Jools Holland (47) weds sculptor Christabel McEwen at St. James Church in Cooling, Kent, England

1256-06-13

Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)

1438-10-20

Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64

1455-12-01

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor, dies at 77

1466-12-13

Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)

1482-02-10

Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81

1488-10-07

Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52

1519-09-21

Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49

1522-08-27

Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75

1531-07-08

Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor, dies at 71

1560-02-07

Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)

1564-02-18

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88

1566-08-04

Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies

1570-11-27

Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)

1571-02-14

Benvenuto Cellini, Ital sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70

1585-10-06

Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies

1592-04-22

Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80

1596-05-27

Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies

1620-06-29

John Aerts, Flemish sculptor

1625-11-14

Giulio C Procaccini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies

1626-12-15

Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70

1640-10-26

Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63

1646-04-10

Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)

1647-08-24

Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61

1654-06-10

Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58

1658-12-26

Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at 78

1660-12-03

Jacques Sarazin, French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70

1662-04-04

Leonhart Kern, German sculptor, dies at about 73

1667-08-03

Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)

1667-09-03

Alonso Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 66

1668-08-09

Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64

1668-08-23

Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies

1680-11-28

Giovanni Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 81

1686-07-10

Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76

1686-07-11

Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75

1700-11-30

Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/"the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75

1701-03-28

Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75

1715-09-01

François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)

1720-10-10

Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)

1721-01-07

Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor, dies [or 1739]

1721-09-08

Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)

1731-03-08

Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)

1738-02-15

Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)

1742-07-19

John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45

1746-02-20

Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68

1748-04-12

William Kent, English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace), dies

1759-02-15

Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, dies at 89

1759-05-12

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)

1759-07-25

Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies

1762-01-11

Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)

1768-04-19

Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70

1771-03-08

Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)

1776-05-04

Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)

1777-06-22

Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71

1777-07-13

Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61

1783-05-03

Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49

1784-07-15

Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies

1785-08-21

Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies

1790-01-02

Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies

1799-08-07

John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58

1801-03-25

Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69

1802-11-12

Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62

1809-05-08

Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78

1810-09-09

Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78

1821-02-23

Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies

1822-10-13

Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, dies at 64

1825-06-13

Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82

1826-12-07

John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71

1828-07-15

Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)

1833-01-17

William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies

1850-01-27

J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85

1856-01-05

Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67

1856-07-04

Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64

1857-12-03

Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80

1858-06-15

Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63

1866-01-27

John Gibson, sculptor, dies

1867-03-02

French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50

1874-08-27

John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies

1875-06-25

Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)

1875-10-12

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)

1881-04-19

Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, dies at 53

1882-06-25

François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)

1882-07-11

Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday

1891-01-31

Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75

1893-01-16

Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74

1902-07-14

Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58

1904-01-10

Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)

1904-10-04

Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies

1904-12-24

Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55

1905-02-04

Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)

1905-04-04

Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73

1907-08-03

August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59

1911-12-11

Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92

1915-06-05

Brzeska, sculptor, dies

1915-09-27

Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84

1916-01-08

Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)

1916-07-11

Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin), dies

1917-11-17

Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77

1919-02-06

Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81

1919-09-06

Worm Pander, sculptor

1919-12-03

Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78

1920-01-25

Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35

1920-07-05

Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63

1921-01-18

Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73

1921-11-12

Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 63

1925-11-27

Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies

1928-03-31

Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69

1929-01-02

Erich Wichman[n], Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at 38

1929-10-01

Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)

1932-11-19

Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies

1932-11-21

Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies

1934-04-24

Emile Chautard, The Blind Sculptor

1938-04-24

George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)

1939-07-20

Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies

1940-11-17

Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)

1941-03-06

John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73

1941-11-26

Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)

1942-12-21

Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp), dies at 63

1943-03-12

Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)

1943-04-04

Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54

1944-06-10

Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28

1944-09-27

Aristide Maillol, Fr sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82

1944-10-05

Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies

1947-01-09

Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), dies at 80

1954-01-26

Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor, dies at 80

1954-03-17

Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88

1954-08-06

Theo[by] Van Reijn, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10]

1954-11-03

Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84

1954-12-23

René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)

1955-07-13

Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor, dies at 59

1955-12-11

Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79

1956-01-12

John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70

1957-03-16

Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)

1959-08-19

Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78

1960-03-30

Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter, dies at 90

1961-02-26

Karl Albiker, German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83

1961-12-17

Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53

1962-01-16

Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)

1962-03-26

Augusta Savage, African-American sculptor and equal rights advocate dies aged 72

1962-06-06

Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34

1963-09-01

Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73

1964-02-24

Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76

1964-02-25

Alexander Archipenko, sculptor, dies

1964-10-06

Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85

1965-05-23

David Smith, sculptor, dies

1965-10-06

Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish sculptor/painter, dies at 78

1966-01-11

Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64

1966-04-08

George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter, dies at 79

1966-06-07

Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78

1966-07-21

Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 83

1967-08-27

Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63

1967-11-25

Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77

1967-12-19

Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78

1968-08-21

Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45

1968-10-02

Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase), dies at 81

1970-05-29

Eve Hesse, German born Jewish American sculptor dies of a brain tumour aged 34

1970-07-21

Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)

1970-08-20

Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86

1971-05-04

Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83

1971-06-28

Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78

1971-12-09

Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)

1972-01-28

Adriaan B "Jaap" Wagemaker, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66

1972-10-22

Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies

1973-05-26

Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81

1973-05-28

Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US art critic sculptor, dies at 81

1974-01-06

David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican sculptor/muralist, dies at 77

1974-03-08

Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56

1975-01-03

Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71

1975-03-09

Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)

1975-03-13

Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75

1975-05-20

Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72

1975-08-28

Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)

1976-04-01

Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85

1976-11-11

Alexander Calder, US sculptor, dies at 78

1979-02-06

Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer, dies at 47

1979-12-07

Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam, dies at 82

1979-12-25

Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)

1980-12-26

Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)

1982-01-01

Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83

1982-02-06

Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle), dies at 87

1982-07-16

Leendert Braat, sculptor/writer (White World), dies

1983-03-13

Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 86

1985-05-12

Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies

1986-07-28

Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91

1986-08-31

Henry Moore, English sculptor/cartoonist, dies at 88

1986-12-04

Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89

1988-04-17

Louise Nevelson, sculptor, dies of brain tumor at 88

1991-02-14

Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90

1991-06-09

Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor, dies

1991-08-30

Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies

1991-08-30

Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies

1992-05-10

Liesbeth Saijers, sculptor, dies

1992-05-13

F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)

1993-01-26

Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80

1993-03-24

Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90

1993-04-16

John P W Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77

1993-04-18

Dame Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor and printmaker dies of cancer aged 62

1993-09-01

Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86

1993-11-23

Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, sculptor, dies at 89

1993-11-24

Jan Schrauwen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 36

1993-11-26

Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69

1994-02-27

Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66

1994-06-10

Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66

1994-08-14

Tom Greenshields, sculptor, dies at 79

1994-09-14

David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57

1994-10-11

Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Nereus on Zeepaard), dies at 66

1994-12-09

Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85

1995-02-08

Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88

1995-02-13

Alberto Burri, Ital's physician/sculptor/painter), dies at 79

1995-02-14

Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79

1995-03-05

Marguerite Kelsey, Engl painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86

1995-03-21

Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82

1995-09-13

Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94

1995-10-26

Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor, dies at 79

1996-01-06

Duane Hanson, sculptor, dies at 60

1996-11-30

Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63

1996-12-09

Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor, dies at 83

1997-02-12

Walter Ritchie, sculptor, dies at 77

1997-02-22

Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, dies at 85

1998-02-25

Umberto Mastroianni, Italian sculptor, dies at 87

1999-03-10

Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian paintor and sculptor (b. 1919)

2002-03-12

Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quebec painter and sculptor (b. 1923)

2002-12-09

Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (b. 1944)

2003-01-27

Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (b. 1915)

2003-06-03

Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)

2004-11-19

Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)

2005-04-19

Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)

2005-07-16

Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)

2006-01-14

Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)

2006-05-31

Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (b. 1933)

2006-07-07

Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)

2007-02-04

Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)

2008-02-09

Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)

2009-07-06

Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)

2010-06-07

Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)

2011-03-29

Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)

2012-01-01

Hermann Guggiari, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor, dies at 88

2013-04-09

David Hayes, American sculptor, dies from leukemia at 82

2016-04-25

Australian sculptor Inge King dies aged 100

2016-05-05

'Knotted gun' sculptor Carl Fredrik Reutersward dies aged 81

2016-11-01

World Cup trophy sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga dies aged 95 in Milan

2016-12-02

Senegalese sculptor, Ousmane Sow, dies aged 81

2017-02-24

Fritz Koenig, sculptor whose art withstood 9/11 attacks, dies aged 92

2017-04-22

Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz dies, aged 86.