Charles Samuel
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Life
Samuel was born in Brussels and trained there. He studied engraving with Léopold Wiener, sculpture with Eugène SimonisEugène Simonis
Louis-Eugène Simonis was a Belgian sculptor.-Career:Simonis studied under François-Joseph Dewandre at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège and at the age of nineteen went to Italy, where he continued his studies in Bologna and Rome. When he returned to Belgium he accepted an instructor...
, Joseph Jaquet and Charles van der Stappen
Charles van der Stappen
Charles van der Stappen , was a Belgian sculptor, born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.- Life :Educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels , van der Stappen's contribution to the Brussels Salon was "The Faun's Toilet" of 1869, and thereafter he began to produce work of a high and novel...
, and medal-making with the goldsmith and sculptor Philippe Wolfers. He began his career in 1889, from his house and workshop in Ixelles, which was the first project of noted Belgian architect Henri Van Dievoet
Henri Van Dievoet
Henri van Dievoet was a Belgian architect.-Biography:Van Dievoet belonged to an old family of Brussels descended from the Sweerts family, one of the Seven noble houses of Brussels, which had already shone in the fine arts of the time of Louis XIV...
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His wife was the French pianist Clotilde Kleeberg.
Work
- monument to the novelist Charles De CosterCharles De CosterCharles-Theodore-Henri De Coster was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature....
at the Place Flagey in Ixelles, modeled by Neel DoffNeel DoffCornelia Hubertina Doff was an author of Dutch origin living and working in Belgium and mainly writing in French...
, 1894 - work at the Botanical Garden of BrusselsBotanical Garden of BrusselsThe Botanical Garden of Brussels stands on Rue Royale, near the Northern Quarter financial district in Brussels.Originally founded in 1826 and partly designed by architect Tilman-François Suys, the main orangery is composed of a central rotunda with a dome, and two side aisles with windows at the...
, circa 1898 - female figuration of La Brabançonne (Belgian national anthem, in French language of female though in Dutch of male grammatical genderGrammatical genderGrammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be...
), Surlet de Chokier square, Brussels, 1930 - bronze military memorial at the Ixelles CemeteryIxelles CemeteryThe Ixelles Cemetery , located in Ixelles in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemeteries in Belgium....