Laoust, André Louis Adolphe

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Name
Laoust, André Louis Adolphe

Gender
Male

Birth
September 16, 1843 Douai

Death
May 7, 1924 Paris

Descriptive Note

André Louis Adolphe Laoust was a French sculptor who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited at the Salon of 1868 and became a member of the Société des Artistes Français in 1885. In 1874, he founded the Ateliers Laoust. He taught sculpture at the Douai academy from 1892 to 1901. 

Laoust won a silver medal at the 1889 Universal Exhibition. He designed sculptures for the Manufacture de Sèvres between 1891 and 1905. 

The nude female statue, holding a mirror, placed under the peristyle of the Maison Paquin at the Exposition of Turin 1911 was attributed to him. 

Roles
Artists (Visual Artists), Sculptors

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