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. 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…

OLYMPISCHE RINGEN

OLYMPISCHE RINGEN

OLYMPISCHE RINGEN (HUGO VAN DER WILT) At the Sports Hall 'De Klavers' the symbol of the Olympic idea is really in its proper place. The artist has shaped it into a large three-dimensional sculpture. The rings, made of stainless steel, are loosely stacked on top of each other and appear to be floating. In a…

DE KLOKKENLAPPER

DE KLOKKENLAPPER

DE KLOKKENLAPPER (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 closely knit unit. Two women stand near the pump and water tank, their eyes fixed on the laundry they are wringing. Their headscarves are still traditional but their clothes are stylized. The…

AGELESS LOVE

AGELESS LOVE

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.…

JOHANNA EN MARGARETHA VAN CONSTANTINOPEL 1217

JOHANNA EN MARGARETHA VAN CONSTANTINOPEL 1217

JOHANNA AND MARGARETHA OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1217 ( FRANS) HEIRBAUT On the 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…

ZITTENDE VROUW

ZITTENDE VROUW

ZITTENDE VROUW (GEORGE GRARD) Grard He particularly 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 ‘the African’ a female sculpture, exhibited…

LA TORDUE

LA TORDUE

LA TORDUE (GEORGE GRARD) ‘La Tordue’ refers to one of the earlier works of George Grard: ‘The Sea’ or ‘Lying Nude’ in Ostend. The latter 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…

GERARD GAUDAEN

GERARD GAUDAEN

GERARD GAUDAEN (WINKE BESARD) 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 an arts teacher at the Royal Athenaeum of Sint-Niklaas and later, as…

UILENSPIEGEL

UILENSPIEGEL

UILENSPIEGEL (MARK MACKEN) At the opposite side of the city park, on the corner of the August Nobelsstraat, is the bronze statue of ‘Tijl Uilenspiegel’. This playful hero of a popular old folk tale frolics and plays practical jokes. His name is a combination of ‘uil (owl)’ and ‘spiegel (mirror)’. The owl, not to be…

GILGAMESJ EN ISJTAR

GILGAMESJ EN ISJTAR

GILGAMESH AND ISHTAR (PAUL VAN GYSEGEM) The mythological figures of the Mesopotamia are impressive creations, 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) (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 this 'Romain De…

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 portraits and figures.…

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 portraits and figures.…

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) 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 Mayor…

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 signed the deed with a cross because she was…

BUSTE HENRI DE LOVINFOSSE

BUSTE HENRI DE LOVINFOSSE

BUSTE HENRI DE LOVINFOSSE (WERNER HEYNDRICKX) BEELD 41 (E) (Liege 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…

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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