Rembrandt Bugatti

Rembrandt Bugatti (1884–1916) was an Italian sculptor renowned for his extraordinarily lifelike bronze animal sculptures, created with an immediacy and vitality that set him apart from his contemporaries. Working primarily from life at zoological gardens in Antwerp and Paris, he captured the essence and movement of exotic animals with a fluid, impressionistic modeling technique. Despite his tragically short career, cut short by his suicide at age 31, he is considered one of the greatest animal sculptors of the early twentieth century.