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Biography in 1940 made all the workshops of Fine Arts School of Montpellier, the year after that of Marseille and is part of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris in the study of Alfred Janniot. Gets the Prix de Rome in sculpture in 1951. Between 1950 and 1960, makes numerous works in stone or bronze. He developed an experimental sculpture in terms of shapes and materials, has worked the stone, bronze and lead, and then steel. Since 1960, Albert F raud discovers the recovery of materials and work in an abstraction becomes increasingly pronounced. With his friends sculptors of the generation of 'r cup rateurs "particularly Guin Caesar and Michel finds his raw material in the scrap automobiles, and industrial discharges. Later work is dedicated to soldering iron and stainless steel. It was also a friend of the French painter Annick Gendron. Albert F raud was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, ranked by Hubert Yencesse left.He has participated in over 200 personal and group exhibitions worldwide. At the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights United Nations on 10 December 1988, Albert F raud designed for UNESCO a commemorative medal. In Paris you can admire some of his works in the museum of sculpture plein air, and the monument to General Koenig, Marshal of France at the Porte Maillot, commissioned by the state by winning a design contest in 1977 and was inaugurated by Fran ois Mitterrand in 1984. On the motorway Paris-Geneva, in the service area of Bourg-Teyssonge to Bourg-en-Bresse, Galaxie is the monument that is his tribute to the French astronomer J r me Lalande. In Italy, one of his works exhibited in the open air museum Etroubles.