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Édouard-Marcel
Biography Sandoz was a son of the entrepreneur Édouard Constant Sandoz, the co-founder of the chemical and later pharmaceutical company Sandoz, and the brother of the author Maurice-Yves Sandoz. In 1923 he joined the board of directors of Sandoz; in 1941 he took over the position of CEO of the company in France. After his father's death in 1928, Edouard Marcel inherited his country estate Le Denantou in Lausanne, which he transformed into a workshop. In the 1920s he developed a light projection technique for theatre stages. In 1935 he was one of the founding partners of the photographic paper manufacturer Tellko S.A. in Freiburg. He studied from 1900 to 1903 at the Haute école d'arts appliqués de Genève and from 1904 to 1907 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the sculptors Antonin Mercié and Jean-Antoine Injalbert. In 1909, he married Adèle Passavant, with whom he settled in the Montparnasse district of Paris in 1910. Sandoz created almost 1800 sculptures and over 200 porcelain models. In addition to creating human figures, he mainly worked as an animal sculptor, making his objects from materials such as stone, onyx, porcelain, semi-precious stones, bronze and precious metals. He participated in numerous…