Joseph Erhardy

Joseph Erhardy (1928 – May 1, 2012) was an American sculptor. Biography Joseph Erhardy was born in Welch, West Virginia, in 1928 (as Josef Herzbrun ). In 1949, in full vogue of the American abstract movement, he left his native country and went to Florence and studied classical sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti. In Rome, he became the assistant of Mirko Basaldella, who was himself the assistant of Arturo Martini, much admired by Joseph Erhardy. In January 1952, he came to Paris, where he has been living ever since. After an abstract period, he returned to the figure at the end of the sixties. Artistically speaking, he feels close to an international group of friends, painters and sculptors of his generation, who have been living in Paris since the 1950s, including Sam Szafran, Raymond Mason (sculptor), Roseline Granet , Philippe Roman and Francois Jousselin, who are in line with Jean Clair, art critic and member of the French Academy. Museums Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. SW Mail to: PO Box 37012/HMSG MRC 350 Washington, DC 20013-7012 The National Portrait Gallery (United States) 750 Ninth St., NW, Suite 8300 Washington, DC 20560-0213 (Portrait bust of John Kenneth Galbraith) The Corcoran Gallery of Art 500 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-4804 The Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave, SE Washington, DC 20540 (Portrait bust of Daniel Boorstin) MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT Bldg N52 Cambridge, MA 02139 (Low relief of Sir Robert Jackson) Vatican Museum The Vatican Rome, ITALY Pompidou Centre/Beaubourg, Paris, FRANCE Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands Selected public works