Frans Deckers

Frans Deckers (20 March 1835 – 18 October 1916)[1] was a Belgian sculptor.

Grote Markt of Herentals, statue in honor of the "Peasant Warrior", 1898

Life and work

Joannes Franciscus Deckers was born in Antwerp on 20 March 1835, to Jean François Deckers (born in Merksem, circa 1800), a baker, and Maria Catharina Stumpers (born in Eindhoven, circa 1804).

He married Maria Theresia Venesoen (Antwerp, 28 August 1839 – Antwerp, 8 April 1918) on 23 February 1865. They had six children. His son Edward also became a sculptor.[2]

Frans Deckers studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he was taught by Joseph Geefs. He mainly made idyllic sculptures with a romantic undertone.

In 1864 he won the Prix de Rome.[3] From 1885 to 1916 he himself was a professor at the Antwerp Academy. He taught, among others, visual artist Egidius Ludovicus Everaerts.[4]

Deckers died in the fall of 1916 at the age of 81. He was interred in a family grave, at the Sint-Fredegandus cemetery in Deurne.

References
  1. Devos, Filip (2007). Devos, Filip; Vandeputte, Omer (eds.). Gids voor Vlaanderen: toeristische en culturele gids voor alle steden en dorpen in Vlaanderen. Lannoo. p. 874. ISBN 9789020959635. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  2. "Jan Frans Deckers". RKD. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  3. De Vlaemsche school Volumes 12-14. J. Peeters-Van Genechtem. 1855. p. 203. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  4. van Wissing, P. W. (1998). Jacobs, I. D.; Kuys, J. A. E. (eds.). Biografisch woordenboek Gelderland bekende en onbekende mannen en vrouwen uit de Gelderse geschiedenis · Part 9. Verloeren. p. 45. ISBN 9789087043216. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
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