Roger Bracke (17 March 1913 – 1993) was a Belgian sculptor, draftsman and watercolorist.
Biography
Roger Edouard Bracke was born in
Lokeren
Lokeren () is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality located in the Belgian Provinces of Belgium, province of East Flanders, and belongs to the Waasland, also called ''Land van Waas'', of which it is the second ...
, East Flanders, Belgium, on 17 March 1913.
He studied at the Ghent Academy.
In 1949 he became teacher of drawing at the Lokeren Atheneum.
He later became a sculptor, sculpting many public monuments.
Among his works are the blue stone monument ''In het land der blinden is éénoog koning'' in
Puyenbroeck,
Wachtebeke
Wachtebeke () is a village in the Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Lochristi located in the Belgium, Belgian province of East Flanders. It includes the main village of Wachtebeke and the border village of Overslag, Belgium, Overslag. In ...
(1976), and the ''Vredesmonument'', located in front of the
Lokeren railway station.
Bracke won the 1961 ''Prijs Groenruimte'' and was named an honorary member of the Accademia Internazionale Tommaso Campanella in
Rome
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.
He died in 1993, aged 80.
Gallery
AD 2023 Roger Bracke Arduin - 02.jpg, ''Vredesmonument'', Lokeren
Lokeren () is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality located in the Belgian Provinces of Belgium, province of East Flanders, and belongs to the Waasland, also called ''Land van Waas'', of which it is the second ...
2023
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1913 births
1993 deaths
20th-century Belgian sculptors
People from Lokeren