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Oscar Nemon (Oscar Neumann) was born on 13 March, 1906 in Osijek, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, is a Croatian sculptor. Discover Oscar Nemon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 13 March 1906
Birthday 13 March
Birthplace Osijek, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 1985
Died Place Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Nationality Hungary

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1906

Oscar Nemon (born Oscar Neumann; 13 March 1906 – 13 April 1985) was a Croatian sculptor who was born in Osijek, Croatia, but eventually settled in England.

He is best known for his series of more than a dozen public statues of Sir Winston Churchill.

Nemon was born into a close Jewish family in Osijek.

He was the second child, and elder son, of Eugenia Adler and Mavro Neumann, a pharmaceutical manufacturer.

He was an accomplished artist from an early age and began modelling with clay at a local brickworks.

1923

He exhibited early works locally in 1923 and 1924, while still at school.

He obtained his baccalaureate in Osijek.

He was encouraged by Ivan Meštrović to study in Paris, but he moved to Vienna instead.

He applied to join the Akademie der bildenden Künste but failed to secure a place, and spent some time working at his uncle's bronze foundry in Vienna.

There he met Sigmund Freud and made a sculpture of Freud's dog Topsy.

He also made a sculpture of Princess Marie Bonaparte.

Later in his life, Nemon changed his surname from Neumann.

1925

After a short period studying in Paris, Nemon moved to Brussels in 1925 to study at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, where he won a gold medal for his sculpture.

1928

He made the monument "June Victims" for his home city of Osijek in 1928, commemorating the murders of Pavle Radić, Đuro Basariček, and Stjepan Radić in Belgrade in 1928; all three were Croatian members of the Yugoslav Parliament who were fatally shot in the debating chamber by a Montenegrin Serb, Puniša Račić.

1931

Nemon returned to Vienna in 1931, to create a large seated sculpture of Freud, now in Hampstead.

He staged a one-man exhibition of portrait heads at the Académie, including his Freud and a bust of Paul-Henri Spaak.

1934

He made portraits of King Albert I, Queen Astrid of the Belgians, Emile Vandervelde and August Vermeylen, and also exhibited at the Galerie Monteau in December 1934 and January 1939.

1938

Concerned by the approaching threat of Nazi Germany, he escaped to England in 1938, a year before the outbreak of World War II.

He abandoned over a decade of work in progress in his studio, including a 20 ft clay model, "Le Pont".

Most of his family remained in Europe and were murdered in the Holocaust.

1939

Brussels became his home until 1939; he shared a house there with the painter René Magritte for much of the 1930s.

Nemon married Patricia Villiers-Stuart, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Villiers-Stuart, in 1939 and they lived firstly in Holywell Street in Oxford, and then Sandfield Road in Headington, before settling in Boars Hill.

They had a son, Falcon and two daughters, Aurelia and Electra.

Falcon had a varied career, first as a photographer, then as a film maker, and finally as a music promoter.

Aurelia married the Conservative MP Sir George Young, and Electra married rock musician Phil May.

1940

Meanwhile, in the 1940s and 1950s, he also created a series of lesser-known relief works, which he called "Les Fleurs de mon Coeur" (The Flowers of my Heart).

1941

Nemon made a bust of Max Beerbohm in 1941 (now at Merton College, Oxford); Beerbohm taught him English.

The growing family moved to Boars Hill, near Oxford, in 1941, first living in rented rooms, and then Nissen huts on land bought from Robert Graves which he named "Pleasant Land", after the words of the hymn Jerusalem.

1942

He exhibited some portraits at Regent's Park College in Oxford in 1942, and made portraits of John Rothenstein, director of the Tate Gallery, and Sir Karl Parker of the Ashmolean Museum.

1948

He became a naturalised British subject in 1948.

After the war, Nemon made sculptures of a number of high-profile figures.

He made portraits of the members of British Royal Family, including Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, and the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, at a studio in St James's Palace.

He also sculpted war leaders such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Alexander of Tunis, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Lord Freyberg, Lord Portal of Hungerford, Lord Beaverbrook, and other political figures including Harold Macmillan, Harry S. Truman and Margaret Thatcher.

He is best known for his series of more than a dozen public statues of Winston Churchill, including examples in the House of Commons and the Guildhall, at Westerham (near Churchill's home at Chartwell), and in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto.

1960

He designed and built a combined house and studio on the site in the 1960s.

1977

He was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of St Andrews in 1977, and a retrospective was held at the Ashmolean Museum in 1982.

He was honoured by the tenth Slavonian Biennal.

1984

His last major piece, a monumental memorial to the Royal Canadian Air Force in Toronto, was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 1984.

1985

He died on 13 April 1985 at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

The same year, a memorial exhibition was held at the Galerija Likovnih Umjetnosti in Osijek.