Aloïs de Beule

Aloïs De Beule (27 August 1861 in Zele – 15 December 1935 in Ghent) was a Belgian sculptor.

Biography

Aged ten he entered his father's shoemaking business. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Sint-Lucasschool in Ghent where he won the first prize in sculpture in 1888. In 1889 he and his brother Emile De Beule set up a studio together. They began in a barn in the Sint-Pietersdorp (Sint-Pieters-Aalst) district of Ghent, on the spot where Het Ros Beiaard stands - he produced that sculpture for the World Exhibition of 1913 in Ghent, in collaboration with Domien Ingels, an animal sculptor, and it proved a breakthrough for both of them. De Beule was also later commissioned by the architects Jean-Baptiste Bethune and Valentin Vaerwyck. His pupils included Geo Verbanck, Leo Sarteel, Oscar Sinia, Jules Vits and Modeste Van Hecke

Works

• The monument to the Peasants' War in the church square in Overmere
• Ros Beiaard
• Bronze statue of Adriaan Poirters in Oisterwijk
• Stations of the Cross for (among others) the Sint-Jacobskerk in Ghent, the Sint-Quintinuskerk in Zonhoven, the Church of the Annunciation in London, St Anne's Church in Liverpool and St Augustine's Church in Ramsgate
• Gilded statue of St Gudule in the Cathedral of St Michael and St Gudule, Brussels, 1912
• Statue of the Sacred Heart in the Emmaplein in 's-Hertogenbosch
• Busts of (among others) Antoon Stillemans, Hendrik Conscience and Prudens Van Duyse
• Monument to the fallen in the town park in Ruiselede, 1923
• Crucifix and Calvary in the pilgrimage route in Bareldonk Berlare
• Bronze statue of Christ the King in the church in Ophasselt, near Geraardsbergen

Gallery

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References

External links

• Biography of De Beule
• De Beule's entry in the ODIS-databank