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Hoyeck, Youssef
(b Helta, Batroun District, Lebanon, 1883; d Beirut, 1962). Lebanese sculptor and painter. In 1919 he went to Paris and Rome where he studied sculpture and drawing. In Paris he worked under Antoine Bourdelle and shared a studio with the poet and painter Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883–1931). In 1939 Hoyeck returned to Lebanon and opened the first sculpture studio in Beirut; he became the teacher and guide of a generation of Lebanese sculptors. In his work, mainly nudes and heads, he tried to reach a middle ground between popular taste, the influences of Rodin and Bourdelle, and the gracefulness of Italian sculpture.
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