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Constant Ambroise Roux known as Constant Roux, was born on 20 April 1865 in Marseille and died on 17 November 1942 in the same city. He is a French sculptor. ==Biography == Roux' parents ran a chemist shop and Roux started working at a young age for Achille Blanqui who was a furniture maker. Roux helped with the wood carving involved. Roux studied at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Marseille, enrolling in 1879, and working under the tuition of Émile Aldebert, Marius Guindon and Théodore Jourdan, and was subsequently admitted to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying under Jules Coutan, Jules Cavelier and Louis-Ernest Barrias. In 1894 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with the ronde-bosse ""Enflammé de colère, Achille revêtant après la mort de Patrocle, l'armure apportée par Thétis, sa mère" and winning this prestigious prize meant that he was able to study in Rome from 1895 to 1898 at the Villa Medici. In 1898, Roux submitted the work "Pourquoi naître esclave" to the Salon des Artistes Français, sending it from Rome and this was awarded a bronze medal. In 1900 he submitted the composition "L'amour au guet" to the Éxposition Universelle, again winning bronze. 1910 saw his work for the façade of the Institut de paléontologie humaine in Paris and for his work "Nicolas Poussin" submitted to the Salon in that year he was awarded a gold medal. After the war he was commissioned to work on various war memorials. He died in Marseille in 1942. Where ever possible Roux supported art in his native city of Marseille participating for example with Emile Aldebert, André Allar, François Carli, Clément Clastrier, Charles Delanglade, Jean Baptiste Dominique Hugues, Marius Malan and the painter Pauline Mace, in supporting the Marseille Salon des Indépendants in 1913 and 1914. He also founded the Galerie Caors-Cottier in 1922 and participated in the Provence Exposition de l'Académie Régionale des Peintres et Sculpteurs held at the Galerie Détaille. From 1931 he served regularly on the jury of the École des Beaux Arts of Marseille together with Charles Delanglade, Louis Marcel Botinelly, Paul Gondard, Marius Malan, José Silbert and David Dellepiane. Marseille showed their appreciation when he was elected to the Académie Marseille. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Constant Roux」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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