Jean Freour
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Jean Freour (born 1919) is a French sculptor.
Freour was born in Nantes. He studied at the Bordeaux School of the Fine arts and attended the classes of Louis-Henry Bouchard in the national School of the Fine arts in Paris. He is a member of the Breton artistic movement Seiz Breur.
In the mid 1950s he settled in the French west coast town of Batz-sur-Mer. For a period of a year, he was mayor of the town.
In his work, Freour uses different materials, including the schist, marble, onyx, and wood. His sculptures often carry a stamp of Breton identity impregnated with Catholicism.
He is the author of the statue of Anne of Brittany (made of bronze and erected in the city of Nantes in 2002).
