title: Philippe Grass
text: # Philippe Grass
  
  Philippe Grass (6 May 1801 – 9 April 1876) was a French sculptor.
  
  ## Career
  
  Born in Wolxheim, Alsace, Grass was a pupil of Landolin Ohmacht and Baron François Joseph Bosio. From 1820 to 1823, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. After his return to Alsace, he was appointed sculptor of the Fondation de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg. In 1865, he became a knight of the Legion of Honour. He made the portrait of his friend Émile Souvestre on his tomb on the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
  
  He died in Strasbourg.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  * Statue du général Jean-Baptiste Kléber, bronze, 1840
  * Statue du préfet Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, 1845, in Strasbourg
  * Jugement dernier, on the facade of the cathedral of Strasbourg
  * Icare déployant ses ailes, 1831
  * Suzanne au bain, 1834
  * Jeune Paysanne, 1839
  