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Alfred Auguste Janniot (Alfred Auguste Janniot)
Alfred Auguste Janniot (Alfred Auguste Janniot)
Born in : Paris XVIIIème - 1889 / Dead in : 1969
Alfred Auguste Janniot was a French sculptor most active in the 1930s. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, a pupil of Jean Antoine Injalbert, and was the winner of the 1919 Prix de Rome. Under the influence of Antoine Bourdelle, most of Janniot's career was given to monumental and architectural sculpture.

Biography   
In 1938 he became an officer in the Legion of Honor. From 1945 through 1959 he held the title of "Professor of Monumental Art" at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. His extensive bas-reliefs on the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, built in 1931 for the Paris Colonial Exposition, portray ships, oceans, and wildlife including antelopes, elephants, zebras, and snakes. Janniot also contributed the gilded panel Paris and New York Joining Hands Above Figures of Poetry, Beauty and Elegance on the façade of Le Maison Francaise, Rockefeller Center, circa 1930.
Studied under Jean-Antoine Injalbert
Achievement   
Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris
Artist
Allégorie à la gloire des Arts
Sculpture
Alfred Auguste Janniot
(1937)
Des Muses et la Légende
Sculpture
Alfred Auguste Janniot
(near 1937)

New York
Artist
Amitié entre la France et les Etats-Unis
Sculpture
Alfred Auguste Janniot
(near 1937)
Alfred Auguste Janniot
Alfred Auguste Janniot
Jean-Antoine Injalbert