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Coubillier, Frédéric [Friederich Wilhelm]
(b Longeville, nr Metz, 1 Nov 1869; d Düsseldorf, 17 March 1953). German sculptor. He received his first training in the studio of his father, Joseph Coubillier (1836–88) in Trier. After his father’s death he had to work in the Kunstanstalt Schülter in Cologne and then in the studio of Wilhelm Albermann in Düsseldorf, before he could begin studying in the sculptors’ class at the Königlich Preussische Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in 1895 under Karl Janssen. While still a student he won the competition held by the Düsseldorf Verschönerungsverein to design the fountain in the Königsallee. He completed his Triton fountain, designed in Neubarock style with Jugendstil elements, in 1902. In the same year he was commissioned to make the statue of Graf Adolf I von Berg at the Schloss Burg an der Wupper (nr Solingen).
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