Albert Desenfans

Sculptor
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IntroSculptor
PlacesBelgium
wasArtist Sculptor
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
Birth24 January 1845, Genappe, Belgium
Death1938Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium (aged 92 years)
Star signAquarius
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Biography

figure of Hainaut, Cinquantenaire, Brussels

Constant Albrecht (Albert) Desenfans (Genappe, 24 January 1845 – Braine-l'Alleud, 12 March 1938) was a Belgian sculptor.

Desenfans studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels as a pupil of Eugène Simonis. Most of the work in his career is related to the building and public park projects of King Leopold II of Belgium in the years between 1870 and 1907. In his hometown of Schaerbeek is a street named after him.

His works include:

  • Bronze figures of Hainaut and Limbourg at the Triumphal Arch at the Cinquantenaire
  • Figures of Day and Night in the Passage du Nord, Brussels
  • work at the Botanical Garden of Brussels
  • Eve and the Serpent (1913) and other work at Josaphat Park, Schaerbeek
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