Large 19th Century Bronze, 80 Cm, Jef Lambeaux, G. Courbet Museum, The Wrestlers

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return to the gallery of this monumental bronze, after its exhibition at
Gustave Courbet Museum, Besançon, "Les Colossi" which took place during the 2024 Olympic Games.

Epoque: 19th century

Signed: signed in bronze, referenced artist and side,
Exceptional bronze with lost wax and
with brown patina, bronze in perfect condition

History: Museum work, presentation at the Gustave Courbet museum during the 2024 Olympic Games.
Subject: wrestlers
Dimensions: width 80 cm - height 70 cm - Depth: 45 cm - Weight: 50 kg approximately

Biography:

Joseph Marie Thomas Lambeaux van Antwerpen dit Jef Lambeaux 1852 /1908
Jef Joseph Marie Thomas Lambeaux, born January 14, 1852 in Antwerp and died on June 5, 1908 in Brussels, is a Belgian sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He is the brother of Jules Lambeaux.
In 1883, Jef Lambeaux was one of the founding members of the Brussels Group avant-garde on the twenty.
Eleve de Joseph Geefs then from the Antwerp Academy. His workshop was located on rue de Savoie (destroyed in 1898), then at No. 104 rue Antoine Bréart (destroyed in 1977) in Saint-Gilles (Brussels).
He obtained a medal for his beginnings in 1881 and gold medal at the Brussels exhibition.
He notably produced the bitten fauna shown during the Universal Exhibitions in Brussels (1897) and Paris (1900) but which was the center of a controversy over the nudes at the 1905 universal exhibition in Liège where this work was covered with a veil.
He was considered one of the apostles of realistic sculpture among the Belgian artists of the XIX ° with his creations from his tormented genius.
A great lover of circus, a man of the people, Jef Lambeaux will never lose his childhood wonder at the spectacle of wrestlers, boxers and other cultists who formerly showed off in places. Sander Pierron reports: "In winter, you will meet shreds every night at the circus.
In summer, in July and August, you will be sure to find it at the forefront of spectators in the athletic arenas of the Boulevard du Midi fair. "This is where Lambeaux drew the inspiration of its powerful sculpted groups which express the effort, the pain and the emotions of the fight. Jef Lambeaux could only be seduced by the muscle phenomenon Eugen Sandow.
Another major work: human passions (1886), a marble bas-relief that was integrated into the Victor Horta pavilion of the Cinquantenaire Park, for which he received a medal of honor during the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
He was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 1903. Since 1899, the relief of human passions has been praise and criticism.
He was appointed officer of the Order of Léopold and the Order of Bavaria.
Source Bénézit, source dictionary of sculptors - XIX ° bronzes

Museums:
Many museums have works by this sculptor.
Royal Museum of Beaux Arts in Belgium - The Bronze Group Watch 240 x 167 x 130 cm
Ixelles Museum: wrestlers (or the Olympians) dated 1895
Antwerp Museum: wrestlers, etc.
Ghent Museum,
etc.

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