Jean Mosnier

Jean Mosnier, 62 years old, teaching sculpture, drawing and painting at the Special Education School of Echirolles is undoubtedly the most secret artist in our region.

Born in Clermont Ferrand in 1923, Jean Mosnier did not leave his hometown until 1969 to set up his workshop in Grenoble, in Echirolles exactly, during the Liberation before a short visit to Meylan and his return two years ago. years old in Echirolles, 13 rue de la Paix, in a vast gravelled ground floor, shaded by a few old trees.

But Jean Mosnier is also the author of the sumptuous ten-meter-long frieze of the Clermont Ferrand train station, as well as two large stone sculptures that adorn the Chamber of Commerce of the Auvergne capital, of a bust of Alexander Varenne and a high relief on the exterior wall of the Mutualité Sociale Agricole de Clermont Ferrand.

A lava bas-relief by Volvic on a school in Compain (Puy de Dome) and the baptismal font of Notre Dame de la Route are also among the most notable works of Jean Mosnier.