> M. Ringel understands his art in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe. > > --Henri Bouchot, Parisian author and critic, 1983. Jean-Désiré Ringel d'Illzach was born in Illzach, in Alsace-Lorraine, France, the son of a Protestant pastor. By fifteen, he had moved to Paris to study music and art. He studied sculpture under Julius Hähnel in Dresden, and then worked in Paris in the studios of François Jouffr
