Philippe Grass

Philippe Grass (6 May 1801 – 9 April 1876) was a French sculptor.

Career Born in Wolxheim, Alsace, Grass was a pupil of Landolin Ohmacht and Baron François Joseph Bosio. From 1820 to 1823, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. After his return to Alsace, he was appointed sculptor of the Fondation de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg. In 1865, he became a knight of the Legion of Honour. He made the portrait of his friend Émile Souvestre on his tomb on the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

He died in Strasbourg.

Selected works Statue du général Jean-Baptiste Kléber, bronze, 1840 Statue du préfet Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, 1845, in Strasbourg Jugement dernier, on the facade of the cathedral of Strasbourg Icare déployant ses ailes, 1831 Suzanne au bain, 1834 Jeune Paysanne, 1839