Marius Giot (1897 - 1980)

A student of Jean Boucher at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, he began his career as a sculptor in 1919. In 1924, he was named a member of the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1925, he received the first Chenavard prize. He is the author or collaborator of many war memorials, porches and church pediments and also of a Way of the Cross. In 1929, he won a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Nice. It was at this time that he began his collaboration with the Manufacture HB in Quimper.