Guillaume Geefs
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Guillaume Geefs (born 1805 at Antwerp; died 1883) was a Belgian sculptor.
Geefs studied under Van Geels and Jean-Etienne Ramey.
In 1833, he executed a colossal work at Brussels, "Victims of the Revolution," and numerous statues and busts as well as imaginative productions.
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Geefs' Genie du Mal
In his lifetime, Geefs work was marred greatly by what was considered frivolous and inessential details and poverty of thought, together with a perceived frigid coldness of expression in his modelling.
His two younger brothers (Joseph Geefs and Jean Geefs) were also distinguished sculptors; his wife Fanny was a noted painter.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
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