Philippe THILL Bronze Art Sculpture Rome Prize and 3rd Paris Biennale

  
Philippe THILL (10/12/1937 - 03/02/2010) Art bronze sculpture. Unique piece (one edition only). Grand Prize for Monumental Art 1961 and 1962. First Grand Prize of Rome 1963. Prize for the French Section of the Third Biennale of Paris 1963 (Sculpture Prize). Participations in the Biennales of 1959, 1963, 1965, and 1969. Base dimensions: 22 x 12 cm.

Elements of the artist's biography (source: philippethill. Philippe Thill grew up in various neighborhoods of Marseille and Toulon. In 1956, he was admitted to the Beaux-Arts in Paris: E. (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts). A student of Marcel Gimond, then of Henri-Georges Adam (a friend of Malraux), he continued to win awards.

He received travel scholarships, became the head of the workshop, and experienced his first great loves. 1961 and 1962: Grand Prize for Monumental Art (which aimed to be the modern rival of the Grand Prize of Rome). 1963: 1st Grand Prize of Rome.

1963: Sculpture Prize for the French Section of the 3rd Biennale of Paris. 1964: Great Medal of the Academy of Var. Philippe Thill was very proud of this Regional Medal and, despite the prestigious national awards he had received, he liked to mention it with affection. Perhaps because it represented for him the recognition of a childhood connection.

These four years brought him into contact with Balthus, already at the height of his art (Director of the Villa Medici at that time), and also forged friendships with André Barelier, Brigitte Baumas, Jacqueline Deyme, Jean-Marc Lange, Frédérique Klossowski de Rola. His stay in Rome did not erase his Parisian connections: Josée Chevry, Jean-Yves Bonnard and his wife, Béatrice Casadesus... Architects Jacques Kalisz and the so-called "Marseillais" group of brilliant young architects from Zavaroni: Nicole Martel, Louis Dallest, Michel Brante, Gérard Vollenweider, Yves Bonnel, Bernard Tarazzi. Philippe Thill passed away in 2010, in Cassis, at home, in the villa he had built as a final sculpture, for his wife and himself.

He participated in the first Biennales of Paris, 1963, 1965; in the Symposium of Parc Jean Vilar in Aix les Bains; in the Salon de Mai; in the Salon of Young Sculpture; at the American Center and at the Espace Cardin. He was invited to "Art in the City" and "Arts of the Street" at the Grand Palais. From 1990 to 1997, he exhibited at the Aktuaryus Gallery, Strasbourg; at MAC 2000, Grand Palais. He participated in the rapprochement of "architects and artists" in the perspective of constructing new cities. He completed around forty personal creations for architecture and the environment.

He received public commissions for the cities of Toulon, Aix-les-Bains, Nemours, Nancy, Gennevilliers, and for the Parc de Saint-Cloud.