Graziella Curreli (born 1960), is a French sculptor working in Haarlem, the Netherlands. She specializes in bronze figures and is known for her sculptures of strong women, most notably Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer.
She attended the Sorbonne.[1] She has created works for the city of Haarlem and for the city of Diemen. Her bronze of Kenau and Wigbolt Ripperda for Haarlem was originally designed in a smaller version for the Ripperda renovation project in 2009, but was rejected in favor of a more abstract work. She was then contracted by the Haarlem councilman Chris van Velzen in April 2010 to construct a much larger version, and though he died the same year, the project has been realised and the result is 4 meters high.[2][3] Her first sculpture of Kenau was made for the Kenau Hasselaarsprijs, a yearly prize for promoting emancipation.[4]
References
edit- ^ Website of the artist
- ^ Standbeeld Kenau en Ripperda geplaatst op Stationsplein Haarlem Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine 16 May 2013 article in the Haarlems Dagblad
- ^ Weblog of the artist
- ^ Haarlem stadskrant 34[permanent dead link] 21 August 2008
- La Vie en Bronze, blog about the 4-year-long project for the Haarlem stationsplein, by Graziella Curreli
- Graziella Curreli in the RKD