Louis Botinelly

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameLouis Marcel•Botinelly
Used nameLouis•Botinelly
Born26 January 1883 in Digne-les-Bains, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (FRA)
Died28 March 1962 in Marseille (Marseilles), Bouches-du-Rhône (FRA)
NOC France

Biography

Louis Botinelly created several war memorials and statues for churches. He was influenced by a style-mixture between the Figurative Tradition and Modernism. The offspring of a family of stonemasons studied in Marseille and then went for a year to Italy, then to Paris as a student of Jules Coutan at the École des Beaux-Arts. After World War I, he returned to Marseilles. After World War II, he created mainly religious art. In 1955 he became an officer of the Legion d’Honneur. A plaster figure titled Footballeur was presented by Botinelly in 1930 in the Salon des artistes français.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1932 Summer Olympics Art Competitions FRA Louis Botinelly
Sculpturing, Statues, Open (Olympic) AC