Luxembourg sculptor and medalist Julien Lefévre was also the reserve for the Luxembourgian bobsleigh team at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His father Alfred built the famous Grand Hôtel Mercure Alfa in Luxembourg. Julien Lefèvre mostly worked together with his wife Nina-Victorine Kestler (1904-81). Both studied at l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Joint works were signed with “Julien et Nina Lefèvre”. Julien worked as a sculptor, a medalist and as an engraver of coins and banknotes. In 1935 he was a founding member and the first president of the Groupement des Escrimeurs (Group of Luxembourg Fencers), which in 1937 eventually became the Luxembourg Fencing Association.
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