Philippe Grass

Philippe Grass (6 May 1801 – 9 April 1876) was a French sculptor.

Career
Born in Wolxheim, Alsace, Grass was a pupil of Landolin Ohmacht and Baron François Joseph Bosio. From 1820 to 1823, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. After his return to Alsace, he was appointed sculptor of the Fondation de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg. In 1865, he became a knight of the Legion of Honour. He made the portrait of his friend Émile Souvestre on his tomb on the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

He died in Strasbourg.

Selected works

 * Statue du général Jean-Baptiste Kléber, bronze, 1840
 * Statue du préfet Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, 1845, in Strasbourg
 * Jugement dernier, on the facade of the cathedral of Strasbourg
 * Icare déployant ses ailes, 1831
 * Suzanne au bain, 1834
 * Jeune Paysanne, 1839