Art Nouveau Bronze Vase With Flowers - Julia Vanzype - H. 31 Diameter: 15cm

Art Nouveau Bronze Vase with Flowers Julia Vanzype Signed Founder: H. Luppens & Cie Editors H. 31 Diameter: 15cm Bronze Vase, Julia Vanzype, ed H. Luppens & Co. The example included in "Sculpture in Belgium" is in pewter while this one is in bronze. Julia Vanzype, painter - sculptor. Her name was Julia Frezin wife Van Zype. Born in 1864, daughter of the painter Louis Frezin, Julia Frezin was a student of the painter Jean-François Portaels, she exhibited at the salons of Brussels and Antwerp in 1898 with Spinner, bronze bust and Portrait of MGV, bronze mask, at the 'Universal and International Exhibition in Brussels in 1910 with a Flowers oil and a bust. Julia Frezin comes from a Christian bourgeois background, having received a Catholic education, endowed with several talents, sculptor, painter, author of chronicles published in “Tout Bruxelles”, entitled “Feminine Notes”. After her marriage to Gustave Vanzype, novelist and journalist, and the birth of a first child, she dedicated herself almost exclusively to her family and hardly took part in the artistic world. In September 2003, La Vente Horta sold a pewter storage compartment by H. Luppens.