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Beethoven with Two Hands

Title	Beethoven with Two Hands
Artist	エミール゠アントワーヌ・ブールデル　Emile Antoine BOURDELLE
Date	1908
Medium	bronze
Dimensions	53.0×44.0×33.0
Classification	Sculptures
Accession Number	FS198400001000
Summary	Bourdelle made some 40 images of Beethoven between 1886 and the year of his death. The first ones were realistic, but after around 1901 the appearance and setting of the sculptures became freer and the expressive figure came to reflect his own personality. Bourdelle left an affinity for Beethoven because both artists had stubborn, forceful personalities, strong emotions, and a bold compositional sense which led them to make elevating works of art full of compressed energy. This piece was made the year Bourdelle left Rodin's workshop. The masses of the face and hands seem to be carved out of three square stone pillars, and the composition is impressively architectural. The large mass of the background envelops the contemplative face which suggests an expansive inner world. The hands are quite large in comparison to those in painted portraits of Beethoven. Forceful and expressive, they symbolize the artist's ability to transform spirit into actual sounds and forms.

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Native place	Montauban, FRA
Birth	1861
Dead place	Le Vesinet, FRA
Died	1929
Biography	Bourdelle was born in Montauban in France. He did wood-carving while helping with the family business of cabinet-mak-ing. After attending the Ecole des Beaux- Arts in Toulouse, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1884 and worked with Falguiere. He left after two years to study with Dalou and became Rodin's assistant in 1893. He learned Rodin's formal vocabulary of passionate modeling but escaped the influence of Rodin with his Head of Apollo in 1900, beginning his exploration of a new sculptural order composed of clearly defined planes and volumes. In 1909 he had a major success with Herakles Archer. He used his ability to synthesize linear and perpendicular forms with a strong rhythm in architectural structures in a number of monuments including the monument to the poet Mickiewicz (1908-1929) and the equestrian monument of General Alvear (1912-1925). Bourdelle was an important figure in French sculpture after Rodin and he influenced a number of Japanese sculptors including Shimizu Takashi.

Beethoven with Two Hands

Emile Antoine BOURDELLE