Joseph Geefs
Joseph Germain Geefs or Jozef Germain Geefs was a Belgian sculptor. Also his six brothers Guillaume Geefs, Aloys Geefs, Jean Geefs, Théodore Geefs, Charles Geefs and Alexandre Geefs were sculptors.
Life
Joseph Geefs was born in Antwerp, where he studied at the Royal [Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp)|Royal Academy of Fine Arts], going on to École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and winning the Prix de Rome in 1836. In 1841, he became a lecturer in sculpture and anatomy at the Academy in Antwerp, rising to be its director in 1876. He was made an officer of the Order of Leopold in 1859 by King Leopold I.Geefs married a daughter of the architect Lodewijk Roelandt and probably produced the portrait medallion on his gravestone. Geefs died in Antwerp, aged 76, and was buried in Berchem.
Honours
1881: Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold.- Knight Commander of the Order of the White Falcon.
- Officer in the Order of the Oak Crown.
- Officer in the Order of the Zähringer Lion.
- Knight in the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa.
Selected works
Image:Rotterdam kunstwerk [gijsbert hogendorp.jpg|thumb|right|Statue of Gijsbert Van Hogendorp by Josef Geefs (1867)]Belgium
Antwerp
Indian rider attacked by two jaguars and Hunter with booty, in Antwerp Zoo- Equestrian statue of Leopold I of Belgium, in Leopoldstraat
Brussels
L'ange du Mal , Royal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumMechelen
- Stations of the cross and images in Saints Peter and Paul Church
Netherlands
Heiligerlee
- Monument to Adolf van Nassau, to a design by Johannes Hinderikus Egenberger
Rotterdam
Tilburg
- Portrait medallion of William II of the Netherlands on an obelisk