DOI issue:
No. 95 (January, 1905)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26963#0336
Studio-Talk
Godefroid’ Devreese was born at Courtrai in
1861. From the age of fifteen he practised
sculpture in the studio of his father, Constant
Devreese, who executed the statues of the Counts
of Flanders which adorn the fagade of the Hotel
de Ville at Courtrai. In 1881 the young artist
came to Brussels to attend the Academie des Beaux-
Arts, and he worked diligently there for several
years under the direction of the admirable Brussels
sculptor, Charles Vander Stappen, whose remark-
able qualities as an executant are equalled by his
gifts as a teacher.
The great success achieved by his Lace-maker
the badge of the members of the Provincial Council
of Brabant. The artist thus personified the pro-
vince of Brabant by means of its best known artistic
industry, Brussels lace.
Two other plaques were executed in 1899, and
in 1900 the Young Polish Girl. In 1901 he com-
pleted six medals, ornaments, and plaques, of
which one was the medallion of M. Charles Buis,
burgomaster of Brussels from December 1881 to
December 1899, the Communal Council having
unanimously decided to present him with a
portrait-medallion. This was a remarkably success-
ful piece of work.
In 1902 he produced a larger number still: 12
medals and plaques, comprising among them one
for the Belgian Photographic Association; the
medal presented by the Belgian exhibitors to the
art critic, M. Fierens-Gevaert, Commissioner-
General for Belgium at the Turin Exhibition in
1902 ; the medallion (this one is cast, the others
were struck), of M. Alphonse de Witte, Secretary
of the Royal Numismatical Society of Belgium, and
President of the Dutch and Belgian Societe des
Amis de la Medaille d’Art; and the medal made
to celebrate the golden wedding of Baron de Vos
van Steenwyk. All these showed an advance in
the medallist’s powers.
BY G. DEVREESE
Godefroid’ Devreese was born at Courtrai in
1861. From the age of fifteen he practised
sculpture in the studio of his father, Constant
Devreese, who executed the statues of the Counts
of Flanders which adorn the fagade of the Hotel
de Ville at Courtrai. In 1881 the young artist
came to Brussels to attend the Academie des Beaux-
Arts, and he worked diligently there for several
years under the direction of the admirable Brussels
sculptor, Charles Vander Stappen, whose remark-
able qualities as an executant are equalled by his
gifts as a teacher.
The great success achieved by his Lace-maker
the badge of the members of the Provincial Council
of Brabant. The artist thus personified the pro-
vince of Brabant by means of its best known artistic
industry, Brussels lace.
Two other plaques were executed in 1899, and
in 1900 the Young Polish Girl. In 1901 he com-
pleted six medals, ornaments, and plaques, of
which one was the medallion of M. Charles Buis,
burgomaster of Brussels from December 1881 to
December 1899, the Communal Council having
unanimously decided to present him with a
portrait-medallion. This was a remarkably success-
ful piece of work.
In 1902 he produced a larger number still: 12
medals and plaques, comprising among them one
for the Belgian Photographic Association; the
medal presented by the Belgian exhibitors to the
art critic, M. Fierens-Gevaert, Commissioner-
General for Belgium at the Turin Exhibition in
1902 ; the medallion (this one is cast, the others
were struck), of M. Alphonse de Witte, Secretary
of the Royal Numismatical Society of Belgium, and
President of the Dutch and Belgian Societe des
Amis de la Medaille d’Art; and the medal made
to celebrate the golden wedding of Baron de Vos
van Steenwyk. All these showed an advance in
the medallist’s powers.
BY G. DEVREESE