Ousmane sow biography of william butler

Ousmane Sow 10 October — 1 December was a Senegalese sculptor of larger-than-life statues of people and groups of people. Sow was born in Dakar , Senegal, on 10 October He returned to Senegal after it became independent in and started a practice in physiotherapy.

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He later went back to France and practised there, but returned to Senegal in He died in Dakar on 1 December at the age of Sow was inspired by photographs by Leni Riefenstahl of the Nuba peoples of southern Sudan , and from began to work on a series of larger-than-life sculptures of muscular Nuba wrestlers. To make them, he developed a series of new techniques and materials.

Sow later made series of sculptures of Maasai people , of Zulu people , of Peul or Fulani people, and, in the late s, of Native Americans. In the Prince Claus Awards , on the theme of Culture and the human body , he was one of the eleven laureates. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.

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