Pierre Duc

Place Neuve, Geneva by Pierre Duc - Watercolor on paper 50x69 cm

Pierre Duc (born in 1945) is a French painter, printmaker and sculptor A former student of the sculptor Georges Oudot (who created among others the academician swords of Edgar Faure and Jacques Soustelle), he graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Besançon in engraving. Pierre Duc was a plastic arts teacher at the Lycée de Champagnole and at the IUFM in Franche-Comté. He has exhibited since 1972 in Besançon, Strasbourg, Paris, Lyon, and takes part in numerous exhibitions, biennials. Pierre Duc also built monumental sculptures, L'Éternité and Xavier Marmier in Pontarlier, the Fontaine du Temps and the Greyhounds of Belle-Frize in Champagnole, Saint Vernier in Arbois, Une Tranche d'Univers in Crimolois, the Doubs and the Loue in Dole, the two memorials for the veterans of North Africa and Indochina in Dijon, the Vauban of the citadel of Besançon, and created ephemeral works of land art. Laureate in Cultural Affairs in 1979, first prize in sculpture from the city of Belfort in 1987, first prize at the 1993 Dijon International Festival and Luxeuil in 1996, prize from the General Council of Touraine in 2000.