Jean-Marie Baumel

He received a silver medal in 1935 for the composition "L'’Aumône", the Chenavard prize and a gold medal in 1936 for a sculpture in stone called "Idylle", the Puvis de Chavannes prize in 1965 for his work on the entrance to the Church of Notre-Dame de la Salette in Paris and, in 1978, the "médaille d’honneur" for a plaster statue depicting a standing nude.

In 1937, he decorated one of the façades of the Vatican's pavilion at the Paris exhibition of 1937 and in 1939 he was commissioned to execute a statue of Claudius Gallet for the city of Annecy.

In 1956 he worked on a "Monument à la République" in Agde, replacing a bronze fountain decoration melted down by the Germans in 1941 and completed a 1939-1945 war memorial for the city of Dieppe railway station.

Baumel's main works are: The Paris École des Beaux-Arts keeps works by ex-pupils and holds this plaster bust by Baumel, his submission for the 1935 competition: "Tête d'expression" [2] In Le Havre's avenue Foch, one of the many areas rebuilt by Auguste Perret after the war, when so much of the city was destroyed during bombing, the decision was made in 1953 to improve the look of the buildings by adding low-reliefs by various sculptors.

Baumel and his wife Marthe Schwenck were commissioned to execute two of these low-reliefs, after submitting maquettes.

One of the sculptures depicts the Rouen navigator and explorer Cavelier de La Salle leading an expedition to America and the second shows Normans heading to England in a drekar.

[11] Baumel executed two low-reliefs in cement in 1959 for each side of the Saint-Antoine tunnel of the A7 gate to the city of Marseille.

[13] In 1908 a bronze sculpture in the fountain in Agde's place du Jeu de Ballon depicted a woman holding the French national flag with children at her feet.