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.

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