Portfolio Category: sculptures

TRAHIABLAUTA

TRAHIABLAUTA

TRAHIABLAUTA (NICK ERVINCK) With this sculpture I wanted to symbolize a dance of joy, a sensual movement, the flow of the wind when ballooning, energy and strength. Just in these hard times, I wish a sculpture that radiates optimism and lets young and old dream away in their imagination. The sculpture looks like a strange…

OLYMPISCHE RINGEN

OLYMPISCHE RINGEN

OLYMPIC RINGS (HUGO VAN DER WILT) At the Sports Hall 'De Klavers' the symbol of the Olympic idea is really in place. The artist has made a large three-dimensional sculpture of it. The rings, made of stainless steel, are loosely stacked on top of each other and seem to float. In a world where many…

DE KLOKKENLAPPER

DE KLOKKENLAPPER

HE CLOCKTER (KOEN ROSSAERT) This folkloric figure refers to a mockery of the fooled inhabitants of Belsele. A tinker claimed he could repair the cracked church bell with gold and silver. The gullible villagers provided him with the precious metal but the man hastily disappeared. The sculptor succeeded in raising the popular and anecdotal nature…

DE WASSENDE VROUWEN

DE WASSENDE VROUWEN

DE WASSENDE VROUWEN (DORA DE CONINCK) With nostalgia, the artist looks back to a rural world where the village community was still a close-knit unit. Two women stand near the pump and water tank, their eyes fixed on the laundry they are wringing out. Their headscarves are still traditional but their clothes are stylized. The…

AGELESS LOVE

AGELESS LOVE

AGELESS LOVE (DELPHINE VAN SAKSEN-COBURG) The monumental sculpture is probably the most remarkable sculpture in the city. Not only because of the artist's fame but also because of the exceptional circumstances in which the work of art was created. In any case, it is the right sculpture, in the right place, at the right time.…

JOHANNA EN MARGARETHA VAN CONSTANTINOPEL 1217

JOHANNA EN MARGARETHA VAN CONSTANTINOPEL 1217

JOHANNA AND MARGARETHA OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1217 ( FRANS) HEIRBAUT On Grand Place, our attention is caught by a sculpture group with two skeletons. They evoke mixed feelings in the viewer. On closer inspection, this is a complex, daring work of art. On the occasion of the celebration of 800 years of Saint-Nicolas, Art in the…

ZITTENDE VROUW

ZITTENDE VROUW

ZITTENDE VROUW (GEORGE GRARD) Grard particalurly prefers female nude bronzes . He was strongly inspired by classical French sculptors, e.g. Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). Until the mid-fifties he concentrated on full, female shapes of either sitting, reclining or standing characters. In 1958 his style took a turn with the sculpture ‘the African’ a female, exhibited on…

LA TORDUE

LA TORDUE

LA TORDUE (GEORGE GRARD) ‘La Tordue’ refers to one of his earlier works ‘The Sea’ or ‘Lying Nude’ in Ostend. This last statue (1952-1955) is nicknamed ‘Fat Mathilda’ by the locals and symbolizes the lushness and sensuality of the sea in a woman's body. Over the years ‘Fat Mathilda’ was regularly waylaid by groups with…

GERARD GAUDAEN

GERARD GAUDAEN

GERARD GAUDAEN (WINKE BESARD) In the front of The Royal Athenaeum (Forum Da Vinci) we can admire the statue of Gerard Gaudaen. Gerard Gaudaen was born in Sint-Niklaas in 1927 and died in his home city in 2003. He was a famous Belgian specialist of lino cut, wood engraving and bookplates (ex-LIBRIS). . He was…

UILENSPIEGEL

UILENSPIEGEL

UILENSPIEGEL (MARK MACKEN) On the right-hand side, on the corner of the August Nobelsstraat, is the bronze statue of ‘Tijl Uilenspiegel’. This playful hero of a popular old story frolics and plays practical jokes. His name is a combination of ‘uil (owl)’ and ‘spiegel (mirror)’. The owl, not to be seen here, symbolises stupidity, the…

GILGAMESJ EN ISJTAR

GILGAMESJ EN ISJTAR

GILGAMESH AND ISHTAR (PAUL VAN GYSEGEM) The mythological figures of the Mesopotamia are impressive apparitions, roughly sculpted, born in a crucible of fire and glowing bronze. Ishtar, the archetype of the 'Great Mother', possesses dark powers but is worshipped as the goddess of love and fertility. Gilgamesh, the "Hero," is afraid of death. He strives…

BUSTE ROMAIN DE VIDTS

BUSTE ROMAIN DE VIDTS

BUSTE ROMAIN DE VIDTS (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) Romain De Vidts (1890-1962) Under the administration of this mayor, access to the center of Sint-Niklaas was made more accessible by the construction of the Park Avenue, and the park around the historic Walburg Castle, in 1987, was renamed “Romain De Vidts Park. In a lawn stands a rather…

BUSTE PORTRET

BUSTE PORTRET

BUSTE PORTRET (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) This concerns another work of an unknown person, as a study model. In his works and certainly in a portrait, Werner Heyndrickx approaches a person in his physical appearance and in the depth of his inner self. HEYNDRICKX Werner (1909 – 1986) Werner Heyndrickx was a sculptor of…

BUSTE STUDIEMODEL

BUSTE STUDIEMODEL

BUSTE STUDIEMODEL (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) This concerns a work of an unknown person, as a study model. In his works and certainly in a portrait, Werner Heyndrickx approaches a person in his physical appearance and in the depth of his inner self. HEYNDRICKX Werner (1909 – 1986) Werner Heyndrickx was a sculptor of…

BUSTE AUGUST VANDENBULCK

BUSTE AUGUST VANDENBULCK

BUSTE AUGUST VANDENBULCK (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) August Vandenbulck was born on 24-03-1885 in Sint-Niklaas, the only son of Lodewijk Vandenbulck and Henriette Verbruggen. He died in 1971 and was married to Martha Van Cotthem (1889-1969). They had 2 children Marcel (1921-2013) and Beatrice (1928-1943). He got a secondary education degree in Latin and Greek in 1903…

BUSTE ADOLPHE CRYNS

BUSTE ADOLPHE CRYNS

BUSTE ADOPHE CRYNS (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) Adolphe Cryns (1903 - 1991) He was married to Fernande Hommelen and had a daughter Denise. He worked in Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo from 1924 to 1933 and was police commissioner of Sint-Niklaas from 1939 to 1968. During the mobilization of the Belgian army he was called under arms,…

BUSTE FRANCOIS SCHOETERS

BUSTE FRANCOIS SCHOETERS

BUSTE FRANCOIS SCHOETERS (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) (Sint-Niklaas March 12, 1891 - Hamme July 24, 1961) Around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the Belgian Gazette mentions “Schoeters Frères et Soeurs". Bertha Schoeters, co-founder of the company for trade and textile merchandise, would have approved the deed with a cross because she was…

BUSTE HENRI DE LOVINFOSSE

BUSTE HENRI DE LOVINFOSSE

BUSTE HENRI DE LOVINFOSSE (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) (Liege 1897 - 1977). Married to Fernande Roos, daughter of Alexis Roos. They had three children. Henri de Lovinfosse is referred to as “nijveraar,” which for the region means he was a manufacturer. In 1925, he founded the company Manta (Spanish for “blanket”) in Opwijk. He moved the headquarters to…

BUSTE HENDRIK HEYMAN

BUSTE HENDRIK HEYMAN

BUSTE HENDRIK HEYMAN (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) He was the eldest of four brothers with shoemaker Pieter Frans Heyman and Philomena Janssens in the Nieuwstraat. He became a schoolmaster at Tereken and there he also met his wife, Maria Louise Van Puyvelde, with whom he had three daughters after his marriage in 1907. He engages in the…

BUSTE ALBERT BRUGGEMAN

BUSTE ALBERT BRUGGEMAN

BUSTE ALBERT BRUGGEMAN (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) (1872-1960). He was married to Marie Peleman (1871-1960) and was the father of three children: Louis, Paula and Albert Jr. He is referred to as an “industrious man,” which in Sint-Niklaas means he was a manufacturer. His firm “Tissage de Tapis et d'Ameublement Bruggeman” had initially started small in the…

BUSTE WERNER RUMES

BUSTE WERNER RUMES

BUSTE WERNER RUMES (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) (May 3, 1899-20 Sept.1968) was married to Adrienne Bruwiere (1898-1956) He had two children: Greta (b. 1928-2004) and Karel Rumes (b. 1932-1995). Werner Rumes is referred to as “Maecenas.” Most likely he was, because he held culture in high regard. “He had good relationships with Lea Steppe, Romain Malfliet, Sander…

FAMILIE

FAMILIE

FAMILIE (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) On the site of the Vitaz hospital, in the Moerlandstraat, we can find a second group of statues called ‘Familie’ and made by Werner Heyndrickx, a sculptor living in Sint-Niklaas. It stands in a raised green border by the entrance. This work is perfectly situated by the entrance of the hospital. The…

VERBONDENHEID

VERBONDENHEID

VERBONDENHEID (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) In the Moerlandstraat in front of the hospital buildings, we can admire a work of Werner Heyndrickx, a sculptor from Sint-Niklaas. It expresses hope and is named ‘Verbondenheid’. It is as if his figures emerge out of the soil, not as individuals but as people in unity, intensely linked. As a child,…

TUSSEN VERTWIJFELING EN HOOP

TUSSEN VERTWIJFELING EN HOOP

BETWEEN DESPAIR AND HOPE (WINKE BESARD) The main urban cemetery of Sint-Niklaas at Heimolen is adorned with an imposing, bronze work of art : ‘Between Hope and Despair’ represents a seated woman bent forward looking at the ground, without showing her face. The sculpture exudes quiet and subdued contemplation of the end of life. …

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