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J'y Suis Bronze Sculpture Head Portrait Female Girl Woman Black
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
J'y Suis Bronze Sculpture Head Portrait Female Girl Woman Black
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roofvogel met Vis no. 3 Prey Bird with Fish Bronze Sculpture Animal Nature
By Evert den Hartog
Located in Utrecht, NL
Roofvogel met Vis no. 3 Prey Bird with Fish Bronze Sculpture Animal Nature
Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed his education to be a sculptor a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lied van de Maan Song of the Moon Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lied van de Maan Song of the Moon Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary . Size is including marble pedestal.
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Turnover - 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of a Dancing Nude Man
By Romee Kanis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
You can rightly call Romee Kanis an old acquaintance of the gallery, her work was regularly seen at the gallery until a few years ago. We restore this tradition in honor. We met Rome...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marjo- 21st Century Bronze Sculpture of a sitting Young Girl
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Marjo
56 x 26 x 32 cm
Bronze
The theme van der Kraan likes most is to show the growing of young girls. Living in their own world. Like this girl watching...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italian Animal Bronze : Battling Rams by Sirio Tofanari
Located in Gent, VOV
A very rare bronze cast of two battling Rams, by Sirio Tofanari (1886-1969). An old cast with a dark brown shaded patina. On a heavy green marble steppe...
Category
1930s Art Deco Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Senne- 21st Century contemporary figurative wooden sculpture of a girl
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Boris Paval Conen
Senne, sitting
H50xD50xW30 cm
lime wood
Unique/ one piece
The sculptures of the Amsterdam artist Boris Paval Conen, mainly made of wood,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Art Deco bronze sculpture two panther heads.
By Irénée Rochard
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco bronze sculpture two panther heads by Irenee Rochard, France 1930.
The bronze has a green patina and stands on a Belgian Black marble base.
Information on the artist:
Ani...
Category
1930s Art Deco Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lotte- 21st Century Bronze Sculpture of a sitting Young Girl
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Lotte
50 x 21 x 30 cm
Bronze
The theme van der Kraan likes most is to show the growing of young girls. Living in their own world. Like this girl watching ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
''Baby Lama'' Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Baby Lama
By Ans Zondag
Located in Utrecht, NL
After studying Fine Art in the Netherlands Ans Zondag (1959) spent several years abroad in order to explore different artistic areas and to establish which technique suited her best....
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vliegende uil Flying Owl Polyester Cortensteel Big Bird Sculpture
By Evert den Hartog
Located in Utrecht, NL
Vliegende uil Flying Owl Polyester Cortensteel Big Bird Sculpture
Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed his education to be a sculptor at the Rot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
''Superhero Flies'' Unique Wooden Sculpture of a Boy with a Black Cape
By Philipp Liehr
Located in Utrecht, NL
German artist Philipp Liehr first discovered his extraordinary dexterity as a dental technician. He soon perfected this artistically as a cartoonist and during his training as a scul...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Vliegend Uiltje Bronze Sculpture Small Flying Owl Bird Animal In Stock
By Evert den Hartog
Located in Utrecht, NL
Vliegen Uiltje Bronze Sculpture Small Flying Owl Bird Animal In Stock
Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed his education to be a sculptor at th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mother with child- 21st century Bronze sculpture of a lioness and a cub
By Antoinette Briet
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Antoinette Briët
'Mother and Child'
20 x 30 x 30 cm
bronze
This Sculpture of a lioness and a cub is made by Dutch artist Antoinette Briet. Her forms always are an abstraction of re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
''Crawling Frog'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Frog
By Ans Zondag
Located in Utrecht, NL
After studying Fine Art in the Netherlands Ans Zondag (1959) spent several years abroad in order to explore different artistic areas and to establish which technique suited her best....
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sandra- 21st Century Bronze Sculpture of a sitting Young Girl
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Sandra
45 x 34 x 24 cn
Bronze
The theme van der Kraan likes most is to show the growing of young girls. Living in their own world. Like this girl watching...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Conclave- 21st century Bronze sculpture of three Rino's together
By Antoinette Briet
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Antoinette Briët
'Conclave'
Three Rino's
Bronze
(8/8, signed AB on back site left)
( the three pieces belong together, every piece measures 10x14x5 cm)
These three sculptures are m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Koud Cold Sculpture Mixed Media Bird Contemporary Fantasy In Stock
By Corjan Nodelijk
Located in Utrecht, NL
Koud Cold Sculpture Mixed Media Bird Contemporary Colourful Surreal Fantasy In Stock
Corjan Nodelijk is a composer and a professional storyteller. The quirky and surreal creatures -...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Guido Righetti Bronze Sacred Hamadryas Baboon (Model c. 1917)
Located in Gent, VOV
This rare and striking sculpture by Guido Righetti, titled Sacred Hamadryas Baboon, is a compelling study of the sacred primate rendered in a modern, expressive idiom. Modeled in 191...
Category
20th Century Modern Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Luna- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture
By Marion Visione
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Marion Visione
luna
2/7
bronze
In cm's:
H 55 W 50 D 20 cm
An extremely refined realistic sculptor who translates classic stories into modern forms in his own way.
Marion Visione ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
''La Baigneuse'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of an Elephant Sunbathing
By Miep Maarse
Located in Utrecht, NL
The optimistic bronze sculptures of Dutch artist Miep Maarse (1945) are a feast for the eyes. Dancing elephants, bathing hippos and playing bears characterize her oeuvre. The images are optimistic in tone and message. Through her images she shows us her positive view of the world and humanity.
She shapes her sculptures in a professional and original way. The animals have recognizable human characteristics, which radiate great charm and tenderness. At first glance, this seems simple and charming. The opposite is true. You must have studied man and his behavior extremely well in order to make this translation. A hippopotamus - not a gentle animal at all - transforms into a friendly big lug who dances, dives or acts like an English lord. What is special is that Maarse finds her images so natural that people do not immediately realize that what they are actually doing is not possible.
In ''Between the Ears'' the mother elephant with her child between her ears looks so natural and realistic and is so moving and playful.
Almost casually, Miep Maarse asks the obligatory question: "How realistic is realistic?" Everyone will immediately admit that her images are not realistic. But what are they then? Surrealistic maybe? Strangely enough, it is obvious to place them in that movement, but everyone feels that something is not right. After all, with surrealism we immediately think of bizarre situations and alienation, while Miep Maarse's animal sculptures radiate something familiar and domestic.
Due to the metamorphosis that her animals undergo, they enter the realm of fabulous creatures. The animal sculptures are liberating because the depicted animals have different codes of conduct than the people who imitate them.
Miep Maarse received her education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
''La Baigneuse...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hybride II- 21st Century Contemporary Brass Sculpture of Dutch Artist
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This sculpture by Dutch artist Jan Wils is made of Brass.
Jan Wils is an artist born in the city of Eindhoven, in The Netherlands. He now still lives and wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Murano Glass Sculpture Abstract Face Handcrafted by Paul Kostabi
Located in Winterswijk, NL
This unique Murano glass sculpture by Paul Kostabi is a unique example of Venetian craftsmanship. Mouth-blown and hand-cut at the Hofmeister Glass Factory in Amberg, it is a truly un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
L’Architecte, 1943 by Ossip Zadkine (Vitebsk, Russian Empire 1890 - 1967 Paris)
By Ossip Zadkine
Located in Knokke, BE
Ossip Zadkine
Vitebsk, Russian Empire 1890 - 1967 Paris
Russian-French Artist
'L’Architecte, 1943'
Medium: Bronze with black patina
Edition: 6/6
Signature: monogrammed “OZ” on the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Virtual Victoria - 21st Century Contemporary Wooden Sculpture of a Nude Woman
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Sculpture is made by Jos de Wit. The wood, and al other material he uses for his sculptures he also uses for building instruments. Violins, double bass, guitars, you all can fin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Equus Capricornus - 21st Century Contemporary Wooden Sculpture by Jos de Wit
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Sculpture is made by Jos de Wit. It is made of mahogany wood. The pedestal is made of mahogany and maple wood. In the not of the fish there is a piece ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Protection - 21st Century Contemporary Nude Woman Sculpture , Neolith
By Andries Velting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Andries Velting is a new artist at Gallerie Bonnard. His moving sculptures of dancers are a special addition tot our existing collection.
Velting say...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Baby- 21st Century wooden sculpture of a Newborn Baby
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jos de Wit
Baby
40 x 27 x 29 cm
eucalyptus wood
Painted with acrylic paint
Dutch artist Jos de Wit can be seen exclusively in our gallery with his very spe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
''Between the Ears'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of Mother and Baby Elephant
By Miep Maarse
Located in Utrecht, NL
The optimistic bronze sculptures of Dutch artist Miep Maarse (1945) are a feast for the eyes. Dancing elephants, bathing hippos and playing bears characterize her oeuvre. The images ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Architectural Sculpture made out of Black Stone, 2025 - 'Variation VII (V)'
Located in Bruxelles, BE
‘Verde Levanto’ building blocks
Black paper and white paint
The blocks have been cut and sanded into 7 different basic shapes, based on wooden toy blocks. They are not affixed in a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble
Sax Solo Saxophonist Musician Bronze Figurative Contemporary Sculpture In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Sax Solo Saxophonist Musician Bronze Figurative Contemporary Sculpture In Stock
Jits Bakker was a versatile Dutch artist: sculptor, painter, watercolorist, drawer, glass artist, sil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
''Jerboa'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Jerboa
By Ans Zondag
Located in Utrecht, NL
After studying Fine Art in the Netherlands Ans Zondag (1959) spent several years abroad in order to explore different artistic areas and to establish which technique suited her best....
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Murano Glass Sculpture Abstract Face Handcrafted by Paul Kostabi
Located in Winterswijk, NL
This unique Murano glass sculpture by Paul Kostabi is a unique example of Venetian craftsmanship. Mouth-blown and hand-cut at the Hofmeister Glass Factory in Amberg, it is a truly un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
''Big Pig'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Pig
By Ans Zondag
Located in Utrecht, NL
After studying Fine Art in the Netherlands Ans Zondag (1959) spent several years abroad in order to explore different artistic areas and to establish which technique suited her best....
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Europa en de Stier 1 Europ and the Bull Mythology Bronze Sculpture In Stock
By Evert den Hartog
Located in Utrecht, NL
Europa en de Stier 1 Europ and the Bull Mythology Bronze Sculpture In Stock
Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roaring Lionness
Located in Gent, VOV
A fine quality, twentieth-century bronze model of a roaring lioness by Alberic Collin (Belgian 1886-1962). Prior to casting by the Valsuani foundry it w...
Category
1930s Art Deco Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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Prima Luce Gala Version III Bronze Sculpture Limited Edition
By Thomas Junghans
Located in Utrecht, NL
Prima Luce Gala Version III Bronze Sculpture Head In Stock - Measured without stone pedestal Limited Edition
Each Edition of Casting is different, so each sculpture is unique.
Ju...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dora- 21t Century Dutch Bronze Sculpture of a Rhino
By Frans van Straaten
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Dutch artist Frans van Straaten (1963) should be called an artist of balance always searching for harmony between force and movement in combination with space.
Because of the wide ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Facile- 21st Century, Contemporary Italian Bronze Sculpture of a woman
By Eva Steiner
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Facile
59 x 30 x 30 cm
bronze
Facile is a bronze sculpture by Italian contemporary artist Eva Steiner. In her work she focuses on the gracefulness of women. Her sculptures of bronz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vincent I - Sculpture by Dutch Artist Romee Kanis, Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh
By Romee Kanis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
You can rightly call Romee Kanis an old acquaintance of the gallery, her work was regularly seen at the gallery until a few years ago. We restore this trad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and sculpting, with which ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Beagle - 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of a Little Happy Dog
By Romee Kanis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
You can rightly call Romee Kanis an old acquaintance of the gallery, her work was regularly seen at the gallery until a few years ago. We restore this trad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Let's Dance - 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture by Martijn Soontiens
By Martijn Soontiens
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This sculpture is made out of bronze, by Dutch artist Martijn Soontiens. He made a series of sculptures for the latest exposition at Galerie Bonnard. Y...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pride - Frans van Straaten, 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture
By Frans van Straaten
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Frans van Straaten (1963) should be called an artist of balance always searching for harmony between force and movement in combination with space. B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Happiness Small Bronze Mother Body Child Figurative Nude Sculpture Contemporary
Located in Utrecht, NL
Happiness Small Bronze Mother Body Child Figurative Nude Sculpture Contemporary
Jits Bakker was a versatile Dutch artist: sculptor, painter, watercolorist, drawer, glass artist, sil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Murano Glass Sculpture Abstract Face Handcrafted by Paul Kostabi
Located in Winterswijk, NL
This unique Murano glass sculpture by Paul Kostabi is a unique example of Venetian craftsmanship. Mouth-blown and hand-cut at the Hofmeister Glass Factory in Amberg, it is a truly un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Scharrelkip Free Range Chicken Figurative Animal Sculpture Bronze Contemporary
Located in Utrecht, NL
Scharrelkip Free Range Chicken Figurative Animal Sculpture Bronze Contemporary
Jits Bakker was a versatile Dutch artist: sculptor, painter, watercolorist, drawer, glass artist, silv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Reflectia, Woman with Monkey- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Female Sculpture
By Frans van Straaten
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Dutch artist Frans van Straaten (1963) should be called an artist of balance always searching for harmony between force and movement in combination with space. Because of the wide range in his art-education he has mastered the art of drawing, painting and sculpting technology. However, the classical plastic art of sculpture and modeling opens up the possibility for him to create his own language of sculpture in answer to his urge for art.
Due to this style of sculpting, the preference for bronze is natural.
After his study of sculpture at the Academy of Art in Rotterdam (1988), Frans van Straaten creates bronze sculptures in which he unites force and movement. Feeling and Emotion converted into Matter Sculpture is an experience of space combined with the challenge of the three-dimensional. The tension of space and movement are the themes, which Frans expresses in his sculptures. Summary it can be said that the power of life and being, the feeling and emotion by force and movement will be converted into matter. The experience of space is being expressed in the shapes and characters in each of Frans’ sculptures. His sculptures of bulls express explosive power while the horses find their strength in being elegant. Each sculpture recalls this way their own association and serves as a metaphor for a certain emotion. Feelings, which has inspired the artist for each sculpture. Powerful and Elegant Looking at the works of this artist, it becomes very clear that one of his most important sources is his background in art history.
The Renaissance period as well as several Italian artists served as inspiration to Frans as a sculpture. For instance the expressions in Leonardo da Vinci’s artworks, and also Giovanni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Amazone met Twee Paarden Bronze Contemporary Animal Horse Sculpture New In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Amazone met Twee Paarden Bronze Contemporary Animal Horse Sculpture New In Stock
About Jits Bakker (1937–2014)
Jits Bakker was a versatile Dutch artist: sculptor, painter, watercolo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Stier Taurus Bull Zodiac Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Black Patina
By Theo Mackaay
Located in Utrecht, NL
Stier Taurus Bull Zodiac Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Black Patina
Theo Mackaay (1950)
Mackaay works with recognizable shape:: women, men and animals, w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Glass Sculpture Butterfly Blue Yellow
Located in Winterswijk, NL
This beautiful handmade glass sculpture, crafted with colored glass pieces forming a beautiful butterfly combines aesthetic beauty with profound symbolic meaning of transformation, l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Violin- 21st Century Sculpture, live size, of a figurine
By Astrid Ritmeester
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This sculpture by Astrid Ritmeester belongs to a series she has called 'Memories'
Ritmeester also works as a costume and graphic designer for theatre productions.
Astrid Ritmeeste...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric
#me who 6, 3D - 21st Century Contemporary Sculpture of a Man made of Pear wood
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Sculpture is made by Jos de Wit. It is made of pear wood. The wood, and al other material he uses for his sculptures he also uses for building instrume...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Catatonian Virgin - Jos de Wit, 21st Century Contemporary, Eucalyptus Maple Wood
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Sculpture is made by Jos de Wit. It is made of mahogany wood. The pedestal is made of mahogany and maple wood. In the not of the fish there is a piece ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Troubled Identity - Jos de Wit, 21st Century Contemporary Sculpture Nyatoh Wood
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Sculpture is made by Jos de Wit. It is made of mahogany wood. The pedestal is made of mahogany and maple wood. In the not of the fish there is a piece ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Glass Sculpture - Connected
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Hand-crafted Glassfusing Glass Artwork Glass Sculpture
This unique glass artwork, model "Connected", is a hand-crafted piece of colored glass using the fusion process. The design fe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Moeder Studie 1 Mother Study 1 Bronze Woman Modern Sculpture Stone new In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Jits Bakker (1937–2014) was a Dutch visual artist deeply inspired by classical mythology and Renaissance ideals. Though best known internationally as a sculptor, his artistic talents...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Architectural Concrete Staircase Sculpture, 2021 - 'Passage 7'
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Mattia Listowski(b. 1987, Paris, France) is a French sculptor, draughtsman, and photographer with French, Italian, and Polish origins, coming from a creative family. He lives and wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Mare - hunting horse by Josuë Dupon 1864-1935
Located in Gent, VOV
A beautiful large bronze sculpture of a proud standing mare. Old sand cast created during the artist Josuë Dupon's lifetime.
Josuë Dupon (also Josué or Josue Dupon) was a Flemish sculptor and engraver. His work also includes painting and graphics.
He received his training through evening classes at the academy of Roeselare and Antwerp (1884) and later at the National Institute of Fine Arts (1887). In 1891, he won a gold medal with the monumental sculpture group Samson kills the lion and was runner-up in the Prix de Rome for sculpture. From that year on, his work appeared regularly in exhibitions at home and abroad. His reputation was such, that he became one of a select group of sculptors allowed by King Leopold II to carve statues in Ivory, which was imported from the Congo, the Belgian colony. In 1893 his exceptionally refined ivory statue of Diana was bought by the Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts, which also acquired his spectacular bronze Vulture defending its prey a year later.
Working in every genre and mastering every technique and material, Josuë Dupon became best known as a sculptor of exotic animals. He was equally capable of faithfully expressing anatomical detail as of rendering the animals' nature. Josuë Dupon was a technically faultless realist, with a sense of the dramatic, a feeling for decorative complexity and a tendency towards idealizing. The placement of his camel driver and two bronze groups at the entrance to Antwerp Zoo confirmed this reputation as animalier.
The career that Dupon subsequently built, brought him numerous important awards and an appointment as professor at the Antwerp Academy, a tenure he held between 1905 and 1934. Besides animals, he sculpted busts, war memorials and public monuments. For one of the largest sculptural monuments and the largest fountain in the city of Buenos Aires, called Monument of the Two Congresses, he collaborated with his good friend, the Belgian sculptor Jules Lagae. Josuë Dupon created several statues of mighty condors for this monument.
At the start of his career his conception of art was strongly influenced by traditional 19th century artistic ideals. After the turn of the century his compositions and surface treatment changed and became more modern. He met Rembrandt Bugatti around 1905 or 1906 in the 'Jardin des Plantes' in Paris and invited him to Antwerp. Bugatti began travelling to Antwerp in 1906 to observe and sculpt the inhabitants of its zoo, which was then considered the best in the world, and Dupon allowed Bugatti to stay with him during several of his early visits. As such Dupon became a friend and a bit of a father figure to Rembrandt Bugatti.
Dupon did not play a very active part in artistic movements or associations. Dupon remains an important sculptor not only through his body of work but also because of the influence he exercised through interactions and collaboration with other sculptors such as Lagae, Bugatti and Bourdelle but also because he trained leading sculptors such as Albéric Collin (1886-1962), Willy Kreitz...
Category
19th Century Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Olympiade Danseres Olympian Dancer Bronze Figurative Woman Sculpture Nude Body
Located in Utrecht, NL
Olympiade Danseres Olympian Dancer Bronze Figurative Woman Sculpture Nude Body
Jits Bakker was a versatile Dutch artist: sculptor, painter, watercolorist, drawer, glass artist, silv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Benelux - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
