1. Emile Nestor Joseph Carlier, called Joseph Carlier, was a French sculptor.
16 Facts About Joseph Carlier
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Emile Nestor Joseph Carlier was born in Cambrai on 3 January 1849, in the Rue de la Prison, the current location of the town hall.
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Joseph Carlier attended the Municipal School, then at 15 joined the studio of the ornamental sculptor Lecaron in Cambrai.
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Joseph Carlier began work carving the stones of the Cambrai cathedral.
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Joseph Carlier went to Paris, visiting the Universal Exhibition of 1867, which confirmed his vocation as an artist.
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Joseph Carlier's teacher convinced Carlier's parents to let him go to Paris to enter the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
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Joseph Carlier received a scholarship from the city of Cambrai in 1869, and he joined the workshop of Pierre-Jules Cavelier.
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Joseph Carlier had his baptism of fire at the advanced posts of Bagneux and at Buzenval in Rueil-Malmaison, where he saw the Orientalist painter Henri Regnault fall.
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Joseph Carlier himself received three shots and narrowly avoided the loss of his right arm.
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Joseph Carlier saw the horrors of the Commune, and left in search of new horizons.
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Joseph Carlier exhibited Gilliat Struggling with the Octopus, which earned him a second prize at the Salon of 1879, and Before the Stone Age, which earned him a scholarship to travel and visit Italy in 1881.
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Joseph Carlier's work was purchased by the state for the Musee du Luxembourg.
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Joseph Carlier became a member of the Jury of the Salon of French Artists, where he revised the regulations.
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Joseph Carlier sculpted feminine grace with his masterpiece The Mirror, shown at the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
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In 1918 Joseph Carlier asked of the Minister of Fine Arts the position of Inspector of Fine Arts, and informed him that the bronze statues placed in the garden of Cambrai had been removed by the Germans.
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Joseph Carlier collaborated with the architect Castex on a monumental fountain project for the city of Reims, and sat on the Committee for Reconstruction of Cambrai and participated in other Cambresien causes.