Frans Deckers

Frans Deckers was a Belgian sculptor.

Life and work

Joannes Franciscus Deckers was born in Antwerp on 20 March 1835, to Jean François Deckers, a baker, and Maria Catharina Stumpers.
He married Maria Theresia Venesoen on 23 February 1865. They had six children. His son Edward also became a sculptor.
Frans Deckers studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he was taught by Joseph Geefs. He mainly made idyllic sculptures with a romantic undertone.
In 1864 he won the Prix de Rome. From 1885 to 1916 he himself was a professor at the Antwerp Academy. He taught, among others, visual artist.
Deckers died in the fall of 1916 at the age of 81. He was interred in a family grave, at the Sint-Fredegandus cemetery in Deurne.