Famous Sculptors💡What is Sculpture?
According to Tom Stoppard, a UK playwright:
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it – it’s a sculpture.
While it’s not quite that simple we’ll add sculpture is primarily a three-dimensional visual art so nothing beats viewing them “in the flesh“. ADDucation’s list of famous sculptors provides a good basis to plan your museum visits and keep you enthralled for a few years.
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Famous Sculptors | Nationality | Birthplace | Born | Died | Period(s) / Style | Famous Sculptors Works/Installations (date) |
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Andre, Carl | 🇺🇸 USA | Quincy | 1935 | Contemporary art, Minimalism |
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Armitage Kenneth | 🇬🇧 UK | Leeds, England | 1916 | 2002 | Expressionist |
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Arman |
🇫🇷 France, 🇺🇸 USA | Nice, France | 1928 | 2005 | New Realism | Born Armand Fernandez. Object artist and co-founder of the artist group New Realism with Yves Klein.
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Arp, Hans | 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France | Strasbourg, France | 1886 | 1966 | Dadaism, Surrealism |
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Barlach Ernst | 🇩🇪 Germany | Wedel, Germanyy | 1870 | 1938 | Expressionist |
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Bartholdi, Frederic | 🇫🇷 France | Colmar, France | 1834 | 1904 | Late 19th century |
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Bernini, Gianlorenzo | 🇮🇹 Italy | Naples, Italy | 1598 | 1680 | Baroque |
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Beuys, Joseph | 🇩🇪 Germany | Germanyy | 1921 | 1986 | Abstract |
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Bologna, Giovanni da (aka Giambologna) | 🇫🇷 France | Douai, France | 1529 | 1608 | Late Renaissance, Mannerism |
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Bourgeois, Louise | 🇺🇸 USA | Paris, France | 1911 | 2010 | Modern, Contemporary art |
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Boccioni, Umberto | 🇮🇹 Italy | 🇮🇹 Italy | 1882 | 1916 | Futurism |
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Brancusi, Constantin | 🇷🇴 Romania | Pestisani | 1876 | 1957 | Abstract Expressionism |
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Calder, Alexander “Sandy” |
🇺🇸 USA | Philadelphia | 1898 | 1976 | Modern, Kinetic Sculpture | Creator of the first mobile sculptures that move with air or by touch. His stationary sculptures are called stabiles. Sandy Calder also produced drawings in space made of wire, wood and fabric along with performance pieces and is one of the most famous sculptors.
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Canova, Antonio | 🇮🇹 Italy | Possagno, Italy | 1757 | 1822 | Classicism |
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Caro, Sir Anthony | 🇬🇧 UK | London, England | 1924 | 2013 | Modernist |
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Cellini, Benvenuto | 🇮🇹 Italy | Florence, Italy | 1500 | 1571 | Renaissance |
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Chillida, Eduardo | 🇪🇸 Spain | San Sebastian, Spain | 1924 | 2002 | Abstract, Modern Art |
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Deacon, Richard | 🇬🇧 UK | Bangor, England | 1949 | Contemporary |
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Donatello (born Donato di Betti Bardi) | 🇮🇹 Italy | Florence, Italy | 1386 | 1466 | Early Renaissance |
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Dubuffet, Jean | 🇫🇷 France | Le Havre, France | 1901 | 1985 | Art Brut |
Jean Dubuffet also designed collages and items of furniture and is one of the most famous french sculptors. |
Epstein, Sir Jacob | 🇬🇧 UK | New York, USA | 1880 | 1959 | Cubism |
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Frink, Dame Elisabeth | 🇬🇧 UK | Thurlow, England | 1930 | 1993 | Geometry of Fear School |
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Gabo, Naum |
🇺🇸 USA | Bryansk, Russia | 1890 | 1977 | Constructivism, Modern Art | Born Naum Neemia Pevsner
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Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri | 🇫🇷 France | St Jean de Braye | 1891 | 1915 | Cubism |
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Ghiberti, Lorenzo | 🇮🇹 Italy | Florence, Italy | 1378 | 1455 | Renaissance | One of the most famous sculptors of the renaissance period.
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Giacometti, Alberto | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Borgonovo, Switzerland | 1901 | 1966 | Cubism, Surrealism, Modern |
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Goldsworthy, Andy | 🇬🇧 UK | Cheshire, England | 1956 | Contemporary, Land Art |
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Gonzalalez, Julio | 🇪🇸 Spain | Barcelona, Spain | 1876 | 1942 | Cubism |
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Gormley, Anthony | 🇬🇧 UK | London, England | 1950 | Contemporary |
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Hirst, Damien | 🇬🇧 UK | Bristol, England | 1965 | Contemporary |
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Hepworth, Dame Jocelyn Barbara | 🇬🇧 UK | Wakefield, England | 1903 | 1975 | Surrealism |
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Houdon, Jean-Antoine | 🇫🇷 France | Versailles, France | 1741 | 1828 | Classicism |
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Kollwitz, Kathe | 🇩🇪 Germany | Germanyy | 1867 | 1945 | Expressionism |
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Lehmbruck, Wilhelm | 🇩🇪 Germany | Duisburg, Germanyy | 1881 | 1919 | Expressionism |
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Lipchitz, Jacques | 🇫🇷 France | Druskininkai, Lithuania | 1891 | 1973 | Cubism |
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Michelangelo | 🇮🇹 Italy | Caprese Michelangelo, Italy | 1475 | 1564 | High Renaissance |
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Moore, Henry |
🇬🇧 UK | Castleford, England | 1898 | 1986 | Surrealism, Abstraction |
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Nadelman, Elie | 🇺🇸 USA | Warsaw, Poland | 1882 | 1946 | Surrealism |
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Oldenburg, Claes | 🇺🇸 USA | Stockholm, Sweden | 1929 | Public art |
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Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo Luigi | 🇬🇧 UK | Leith, Scotland | 1924 | 2005 | Pop Art |
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Pheidias | 🇬🇷 Greece | Athens, Greece | 490 BC | 417 BC | Classical | One of ancient Greece’s most famous sculptors.
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Rauschenberg, Robert | 🇺🇸 USA | Texas, USA | 1925 | 2008 | Pop Art | Painter and object artist. Founder of Experiments in Art and Technology aka EAT with Billy Klüver in 1967.
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Rodin, Auguste | 🇫🇷 France | Paris, France | 1840 | 1917 | Impressionism |
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Saint-Phalle, Niki de | 🇫🇷 France | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | 1930 | 2002 | Modern |
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Schwitters, Kurt | 🇩🇪 Germany | Hannover, Germanyy | 1887 | 1948 | Surrealism, Constructivism |
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Tinguely, Jean | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Fribourg, Switzerland | 1925 | 1991 | Kinetic art (Metamechanics) |
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Serra, Richard | 🇺🇸 USA | San Francisco, USA | 1939 | Abstract, Minimalism, Modern Art, Contemporary |
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Thorvaldsen, Bertel | 🇩🇰 Denmark | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1770 | 1844 | Classicism |
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Whiteread, Rachel | 🇬🇧 UK | London, England | 1963 | Contemporary |
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