Joseph Geefs
{{short description|Belgian sculptor}}
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Joseph Germain Geefs or Jozef Germain Geefs (23 December 1808 – 9 October 1885) was a Belgian sculptor. Also his six brothers Guillaume Geefs, Aloys Geefs, Jean Geefs, Théodore Geefs, Charles Geefs and Alexandre Geefs were sculptors.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7YjrAAAAMAAJ/page/n327/mode/1up |title=Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.|date=1920 |publisher=W. Engelmann |language=German }}
Life
Joseph Geefs was born in Antwerp, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, going on to École des Beaux-Arts de Paris 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 by King Leopold I.
Geefs married a daughter of the architect Lodewijk Roelandt and probably produced the portrait medallion on his gravestone.{{cite web|url=http://www.samsongilbert.be/RoelandtLouis.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140501060121/http://www.samsongilbert.be/RoelandtLouis.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 1 May 2014 |title=RoelandtLouis |language=Dutch }} Geefs died in Antwerp,Civil registry, Belgium, Antwerp, death 1885, record nr 4095 aged 76, and was buried in Berchem.{{cite web|url=http://www.schoonselhof.be/2berchem/geefs3.html |title=Geefs |language=Dutch |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209104700/http://www.schoonselhof.be/2berchem/geefs3.html |archivedate=9 December 2007}}
Honours
- 1881: Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold.Handelsblad (Het) 15-05-1881
- Knight Commander of the Order of the White Falcon.Obbit. in Handelsblad (Het) 10-10-1885
- Officer in the Order of the Oak Crown.Obbit. in Handelsblad (Het) 10-10-1885
- Officer in the Order of the Zähringer Lion.Obbit. in Handelsblad (Het) 10-10-1885
- Knight in the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa.Obbit. in Handelsblad (Het) 10-10-1885
Selected works
Image:Rotterdam kunstwerk gijsbert hogendorp.jpg by Josef Geefs (1867)]]
=Belgium=
==Antwerp==
- Indian rider attacked by two jaguars (1869) and Hunter with booty, in Antwerp Zoo
- Equestrian statue of Leopold I of Belgium, in Leopoldstraat (1872)
==Brussels==
==Mechelen==
- Stations of the cross (1867) and images (1867–1871) in Saints Peter and Paul Church{{cite web|url=http://www.kerkmechelen.be/sintpieter.html |title=Parish website of Sts Peter and Paul |language=Dutch |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719085937/http://www.kerkmechelen.be/sintpieter.html |archivedate=19 July 2011 }}
= Netherlands =
==Heiligerlee==
- Monument to Adolf van Nassau (1873), to a design by Johannes Hinderikus Egenberger
==Rotterdam==
==Tilburg==
- Portrait medallion of William II of the Netherlands on an obelisk (1874){{cite web|url=http://www.regionaalarchieftilburg.nl/index.php?option=com_memorix&Itemid=46&task=topview&CollectionID=1&RecordID=2470&PhotoID=002509 |title=Obelisk to King William II |language=Dutch}}{{dead link|date=December 2012}}
References
External links
{{Commons category|Joseph Geefs}}
- [https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/30577 Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie]
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Category:École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Category:19th-century Belgian sculptors
Category:19th-century Belgian male artists
Category:Knights of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa