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- Lucien_Wercollier abstract "Lucien Wercollier (July 26, 1908 - April 24, 2002) was a sculptor from Luxembourg.While he worked primarily in bronze and marble, some of his work is sculpted in wood, alabaster, stone and onyx. His public monuments in bronze and marble are of particular importance. Works by Wercollier can be found in public places and museums in Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the United States.During the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II, Wercollier refused to join the Reichskulturkammer, the Nazi organization that ensured all artists' works were of an acceptably \"Aryan\" spirit. This refusal put him at odds with the Nazi occupiers, and when he participated in the 1942 nationwide strike, he was arrested on September 4, 1942. Wercollier was first imprisoned in the Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg City. Today, the Abbey is home to the Lucien Wercollier Cloister, where many works from his private collection are permanently displayed. In 1965 when the lighthouse-shaped National Monument to the Strike was opened in Wiltz (which won the title of the \"martyred city\" for the Germans' particularly strong vehemence leveled against it in response), Wercollier created the two reliefs on the lighthouse displayed there.Wercollier was later transferred to the Hinzert concentration camp in Germany. The camp, located just 30 kilometers from the Luxembourg border, was one of the main sites where Luxembourger resistance leaders were sent. Today, one of his best-known bronze sculptures is on the grounds of the Hinzert concentration camp where it honors the prisoners and those murdered there.Later Wercollier was moved to Lublin in German-occupied Poland, returning to Luxembourg after he was freed at the end of the war. In 1954, he was one of the founding members of Iconomaques, a group of Luxembourg artists keen to promote abstract art.His bronze monument Interpénétration stands at the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg. Wercollier's sculpture that stands in front of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg City was featured on Luxembourg's eight-franc postage stamp in 1974. Another well-known work is his marble monument La Vague (\"The Wave\"), located on the grounds of the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital (Centre hospitalier neuro-psychiatrique) in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg.When nations around the world gave gifts of art works for display at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the government of Luxembourg donated Wercollier's sculpture Ascension as its gift to honor John F. Kennedy. Another notable work of Wercollier is his sculpture Altius (\"Higher\")—a tribute to the sport of pole vaulting—which stands in the Olympic Sculpture Garden at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.Among his best-known works are sculptures dealing with the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg during World War II. For example, his bronze The Political Prisoner stands at the National Monument to the Resistance and to the Deportation at the Notre-Dame cemetery in Luxembourg City and at the Notre-Dame cemetery in Limpertsberg. It is also exhibited at the National Resistance Museum in Esch-sur-Alzette.Lucien Wercollier also designed the sculpture that is given to recipients of the Vision for Europe Award.".
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- Lucien_Wercollier birthDate "1908-07-26".
- Lucien_Wercollier birthName "Lucien Wercollier".
- Lucien_Wercollier birthPlace Luxembourg.
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- Lucien_Wercollier caption "Lucien Wercollier in 1995".
- Lucien_Wercollier dateOfBirth "1908-07-26".
- Lucien_Wercollier dateOfDeath "2002-04-24".
- Lucien_Wercollier deathDate "2002-04-24".
- Lucien_Wercollier deathPlace Luxembourg.
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- Lucien_Wercollier name "Lucien Wercollier".
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- Lucien_Wercollier shortDescription "Luxembourgian sculptor".