
Charles Samuel (29 December 1862, in
Brussels
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– 3 February 1938 or 1939, in
Cannes
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) was a Belgian sculptor, engraver and medalist.
Life
Samuel was born in Brussels and trained there. He studied engraving with Léopold Wiener, sculpture with
Eugène Simonis
Louis-Eugène Simonis (11 July 1810, in Liège – 11 July 1893, in Koekelberg) was a Belgian sculptor.
Career
Simonis studied under François-Joseph Dewandre at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège and at the age of nineteen went t ...
,
Joseph Jaquet
Joseph Jaquet, sometimes written Joseph Jacquet, (30 January 1822 - 9 June 1898) was a Belgian sculptor.
Biography
Joseph Jaquet, born in Antwerp in Belgium, was the son of a baker.
He studied with Guillaume Geefs at the Brussels Académie Roya ...
and
Charles van der Stappen
Charles van der Stappen (also Karl van der Stappen; 19 September 1843 – 21 October 1910), was a Belgian sculptor, born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
Life
Educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1859–1868), van der Stapp ...
, and medal-making with the goldsmith and sculptor
Philippe Wolfers. He began his career in 1889, from his house and workshop in Ixelles, which was the first project of noted Belgian architect
Henri Van Dievoet
Henri van Dievoet (, 19 January 1869 – 24 April 1931) was a Belgian architect.
Biography
Early life
Van Dievoet was born into an old family of Brussels descended from the Sweerts lineage, one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels, wh ...
. His work was part of the
sculpture event in the
art competition at the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics ( German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad ( German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi- ...
.
His wife was the French pianist
Clotilde Kleeberg.
Work
* monument to the novelist
Charles De Coster
Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 – 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature.
Early life and education
He was born in Munich; his father, Augustin De Coster, was a nati ...
at the
Place Flagey
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in Ixelles, modeled by
Neel Doff
Cornelia Hubertina "Neel" Doff (Buggenum, Netherlands, 27 January 1858 – Ixelles, Belgium, 14 July 1942) was an author of Dutch origin living and working in Belgium and mainly writing in French. She is one of the most important contributors to ...
, 1894
* ''The Lion'',
Botanical Garden of Brussels
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, circa 1898
* female figuration of
La Brabançonne
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(Belgian national anthem, in French language of female though in Dutch of male
grammatical gender
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), Surlet de Chokier square, Brussels, 1930
* bronze military memorial at the
Ixelles Cemetery
*
''Vuakusu Batetela defends a woman from an Arab''
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1862 births
1939 deaths
Artists from Brussels
20th-century Belgian sculptors
19th-century Belgian sculptors
19th-century Belgian male artists
Olympic competitors in art competitions
20th-century Belgian male artists
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