Jef lambeaux biography definition

  • Belgian sculptor.
  • Belgian sculptor (1852-1908).
  • The bronze immortalized by Lambeaux reveals the strength and beauty of the sower's gesture, every muscle and movement vibrating with life and meaning.

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    Brabo Fountain

    Monumental fountain in Antwerp, Belgium

    The Brabo Fountain (Dutch: Brabofontein) is an eclectic-style fountain-sculpture located in the Grote Markt (main square) of Antwerp, Belgium, in front of the City Hall. The fountain, dating from 1887, contains a bronze statue by the sculptor Jef Lambeaux depicting the city's legendary founder, Silvius Brabo, throwing the severed hand of the giantDruon Antigoon into the river Scheldt.[1] It received protected status in 1982.[1]

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    The Brabo Fountain was erected in the centre of Antwerp's Grote Markt, on the site occupied until 1882 by a "Liberty tree", planted in 1836 to replace the first Belgian "Liberty tree" of 1831.[1] The sculptor Jef Lambeaux realised the set of the bronze fountain.[2] According to an inscription on the monument, Lambeaux owed the prestigious commission to Arthur Van den Nest, Alderman of Fine Arts of Antwerp from 1874 to 1882. The project was

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    Movement, muscle, matter: Jef Lambeaux's wrestling groups of the 1880s and 1890s

    An Interest in Wrestling

    Lambeaux is known to have been an avid fan of wrestling. 4 While his groups are artistic renditions of the wrestling matches he witnessed in person, they possess a more timeless quality due the heroic nudity of the figures and the inclusion of the rough ground surface. The earliest of the Lutteurs prototypes is the one shown at the opening salon of fransk artikel XX in Brussels in 1884. Though included in neither catalogue, it was apparently also exhibited-possibly in an alternate form 5 -at the 1881 Brussels Salon 6 and the 1883 Ghent Salon. 7 The other two most well-known prototypes are those dated to 1895-96, of which life-size bronze casts were erected in the Interwar Period: the group entitled Vengé of the Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts, installed in 1922-23 in the open-air Middelheim Museum; 8 and the group of the Brussels Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB), insta

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    Pavilion of Human Passions

    Neoclassical pavilion in Brussels, Belgium

    The Pavilion of Human Passions (French: Pavillon des Passions humaines; Dutch: Paviljoen der Menselijke Driften), also known as the Horta-Lambeaux Pavilion, is a neoclassicalpavilion in the form of a Greek temple that was built by Victor Horta in 1896 in the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark of Brussels, Belgium. Although classical in appearance, the building shows the first steps of the young Victor Horta towards Art Nouveau. It was designed to serve as a permanent showcase for a large marble reliefThe Human Passions by Jef Lambeaux.

    Since its completion, the building has remained almost permanently closed. Since 2014, the building is accessible during the summer time.[2]

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    Inception and construction

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    In 1889, Victor Horta was commissioned for 100,000 Belgian francs[1] to design a pavilion to house Jef Lambeaux's sculpture The Human Passions on the reco