Oscar Jespers

Oscar Jespers (Borgerhout, Brussels, 1887 – 1970) was a Flemish-Belgian sculptor. ==Life and work[ Edit] == In the 1920s chopped Jacobs, the son of the sculptor Emile Jespers, especially images in marble and related materials in Cubist style with a clear African inspiration. From this period dates the white stone "Monument for the fallen" of World War I in Oostduinkerke. The forms are, however, fairly naturalistic compared to other pictures of the artist from this period. Jacobs formed with his brother Floris Jespersthe painter, the poet Paul van Ostaijen and others in the Antwerp of a group of young artists during and after the first world war. After the reburial of Van Ostaijen on the Schoonselhof in Antwerp made Jacobs in 1937 a funerary monument.

In the year 1930, his work was expressionistischer -having more Birth from 1932 is on display at the Antwerp sculpture park open air museum for sculpture Middelheim. Starting from the middle of the 1930s, he left more and more stone as material. Terracotta left him to propose his models ' more intimate ' and at the same time also more realistic.

After the Second World War he dedicated himself to bronze. An example of this is also present in Middelheim Park: In the Sun (1947).

Oscar Jespers was attached to the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels (ENSAV), formerly the École nationale supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAAD-la Cambre) in Brussels. Pupils of him include Willy Abbasi, Reinhoud D'Haese, Theresa van der Pant and André Walker.