Egide Rombaux
Illustration — Ernest Solvay • Illustration — Lamp with a Nymph, collaboration with ironworker François Hoosemans. Made for the Exposition Universelle (Paris,1900). – Collection of the King Baudouin Foundation • Illustration — Ceres by Égide Rombaux Égide Rombaux (19 January 1865 – 11 September 1942) was a Belgian symbolist sculptor. Rombeaux was born in Schaerbeek on 19 January 1865.
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- Born
- 1865 · Schaerbeek.
- Died
- 1942 · Uccle.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- sculptor · artist
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Illustration — Ernest Solvay • Illustration — Lamp with a Nymph, collaboration with ironworker François Hoosemans. Made for the Exposition Universelle (Paris,1900). – Collection of the King Baudouin Foundation • Illustration — Ceres by Égide Rombaux Égide Rombaux (19 January 1865 – 11 September 1942) was a Belgian symbolist sculptor. Rombeaux was born in Schaerbeek on 19 January 1865.
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Schaerbeek.
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The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium awards the triannual Prix Égide Rombaux, established in 1943, to a sculptor between 25 and 45 years old.
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The son of the sculptor Felix Rombaux and Emerence–Rosalie Lemmens. He studies at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Brussels from 1879 while simultaneously working as an assistant to Albert Desenfans. He received his first commission in 1887; sculptures of Antoine van der Noot and Antoine van Grimbergen for Brussels Town Hall. He worked in Florence from 1889 to 1992. He returned to Brussels in 1895, and taught at the academies in Antwerp and Brussels. Rombaux died in Uccle on 11 September 1942. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, which have a large selection of his work, have a study.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Florence. Work by Egide Rombaux is recorded in the collections of Tate, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Royal Museums of Art and History, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
• 1911: Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. • 1919: Commander of the Order Leopold. • 1931: Grand Officer in the Order of the Crown.
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At 17 years old, Rombaux was awarded the prix Godecharle in 1882. He won the Prix de Rome in 1891.
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- 1.De nombreuses sources orthographient erronément « Rombeaux »
- 2.Nouvelle biographie nationale - Volume 4. Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - Volume 4. 1997.
- 3.Sander Pierron. Masques et profils - Egide Rombaux. L'Indépendance Belge. 02 janvier 1905. limité.
- 4.L'Art Contemporain. La Métropole. 37. 2-3 lire en. 6 février 1905.
- 5.L'Art monumental. Journal de Bruxelles. 359. 2 lire en. 24 décembre 1920.
- 6.Ministère de l'Instruction publique. Le Soir. 09 février 1938. limité.
- 7.L'Officiel. Le Soir. 26 juillet 1931. limité.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Robert Diederich, « Le sculpteur Égide Rombaux, auteur du fronton “L'Aurore” », in Anderlechtensia, bulletin du "Cercle d'Archéologie, folklore et histoire d'Anderlecht, , , .
- Eugène De Seyn, Dictionnaire des sciences, des lettres, des arts en Belgique, Editions l'Avenir, tome II, Bruxelles, 1936, page 871
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