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Place of Birth: Forest/Vorst, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
About Louise Ochsé
- Louise Ochsé was a Franco-Belgian sculptor born in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium, at the end of the 19th century.
- Initially she studied under Constantin Meunier.
- She moved to Paris and exhibited her works at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts between 1905 and 1914 and at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique from 1906 to 1912.
- On the occasion of her exhibit at the Galerie Boutet de Monvel in 1912, the poet and writer Guillaume Apollinaire praised her work.
- Examples of her art include a bust of Maurice Ravel which now is exhibited at the composer Maurice Ravel museum in the town of Montfort-L'Amaury, outside of Paris, and a bronze mask of composer Claude Debussy which was exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay October 2008 to February 2009.
- A bronze plaque entitled Challenge de Gramont is on display at the Fogg Museum.She was the niece of Gabriel Astruc, journalist, impresario and founder of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
- In 1906, Ochse married the French poet and writer Julien Ochsé, recipient of the Prix Davaine of the Académie française.
- In 1912, she served as a model for her brother-in-law, the French illustrator known as "Drian".
- Following the death of her husband in 1936, she married her brother-in-law, Fernand Ochsé, a multi-talented decorator, theater set designer, composer and painter, and close friend of other artists such French violinist Henri Casadesus and well-known composers Arthur Honegger, Maurice Ravel and Reynaldo Hahn. Louise and Fernand Ochsé were arrested by the Gestapo in July 1944 in Cannes where they were in hiding.
- Both were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp from Drancy internment camp on 31 July 1944.
- Their last permanent residence was in Paris at 7, rue de L'Estrapade.
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