Jean-Baptiste Jules Klagmann

Place: Paris

Born: 1810

Death: 1867

Biography:

Jean-Baptiste Jules Klagmann was a French sculptor born on April 1, 1810, in Paris. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the guidance of Jules Ramey and Jean-Jacques Feuchère. Klagmann's work was influenced by Feuchère's small-scale, Renaissance-inspired domestic sculpture. He made his debut at the Salon in 1831 with a plaster bas-relief and went on to create various decorative pieces, including fountains and building decorations. Some of his notable works include 'La Seine, la Loire, la Garonne et la Saône' in cast iron for the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. Klagmann was also involved in the design and modeling of figures for a grand fountain submitted to the International Exhibition of 1862 in South Kensington. He was one of the founders of the Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie in 1864, which aimed to maintain the standards of French craftsmanship.