Portfolio Category: sculptures

The return of the Cosmogolem – an impressive work of art by the famous Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen – is being given a new lease of life in Sint-Niklaas thanks to Kunst in de Stad vzw.   This four-metre-high wooden sculpture, which symbolises children’s rights and diversity, was unveiled to great enthusiasm during the Peace…

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. In these hard times, I wish to create a sculpture that radiates optimism and lets young and old dream away in their imagination. The sculpture looks like a…

AGELESS LOVE (DELPHINE VAN SAKSEN-COBURG) This 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.…

BUSTE ROMAIN DE VIDTS (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) Romain De Vidts (°1890-+1962) Under of this mayor’s administration, the centre 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 classic bust of…

 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 portraits and figures.…

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 portraits and figures.…

BUSTE AUGUST VANDENBULCK (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) (°1885-+1971) 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…

BUSTE ADOPHE CRYNS (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) (°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 the police commissioner of Sint-Niklaas from 1939 to 1968. During the Belgian army mobilization he was called under arms, but by mediation of…

BUSTE FRANCOIS SCHOETERS (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) (°1891-+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 signed the deed with a cross because she was illiterate. However, this first company seemed unviable. In…

BUSTE HENRI DE LOVINFOSSE (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) (°1897-+1977) Married to Fernande Roos, daughter of Alexis Roos. They had three children. Henri de Lovinfosse is referred to as “nijveraar,” which in this region means he was a manufacturer. In 1925, he founded the Manta company (Spanish for “blanket”) in Opwijk. He moved the headquarters to Waasmunster in 1930…

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 (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 (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…