Word: despiau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artists. Heiliger was young, naive, and possessed of "the necessary skill to conform with the exaggerated realism the Nazis wanted." Fortunately, the Nazis still allowed a few top students to study abroad, and Heiliger was lucky enough to spend 18 months in Paris. There he met Sculptors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol, was elated by their preoccupation with the human figure. To Heiliger, nature, particularly the human figure, is the beginning of everything...