Joseph Geefs

Joseph Germain or Jozef Geefs (23 December 1808 – 9 October 1885) was a Belgian sculptor. His brothers Guillaume Geefs and Jean Geefs were also sculptors.

Joseph Geefs

Life

Joseph Geefs was born in Antwerp, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, going on to Paris's École des beaux-arts and winning the Prix de Rome in 1836. In 1841, he became a lecturer in sculpture and anatomy at the Academy in Antwerp (his pupils included Bart van Hove and Jef Lambeaux), rising to be its director in 1876. He was made an officer of the Order of Leopold in 1859.

Geefs married a daughter of the architect Lodewijk Roelandt and probably produced the portrait medallion on his gravestone.[1] Geefs died in Brussels, aged 76, and was buried in Berchem.[2]

Honours

Selected works
Statue of Van Hogendorp by Josef Geefs (1867)

Belgium

Antwerp

Brussels

Mechelen
  • Stations of the cross (1867) and images (1867–1871) in Saints Peter and Paul Church[8]

Netherlands

Heiligerlee

Rotterdam

Tilburg

References
  1. "RoelandtLouis" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 1 May 2014.
  2. "Geefs" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 9 December 2007.
  3. Handelsblad (Het) 15-05-1881
  4. Obbit. in Handelsblad (Het) 10-10-1885
  5. Obbit. in Handelsblad (Het) 10-10-1885
  6. Obbit. in Handelsblad (Het) 10-10-1885
  7. Obbit. in Handelsblad (Het) 10-10-1885
  8. "Parish website of Sts Peter and Paul" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
  9. "Obelisk to King William II" (in Dutch).

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