Oscar Jespers and his brother, the painter Floris Jespers, belonged to the avant-garde movement centred on the poet and art critic Paul van Ostaijen in Antwerp. Initially Oscar Jespers experimented with a purely abstract visual idiom, but this gave way to a constructive expressionism after 1921. He here sought to synthesise elements of primitive art, especially African art, with Cubism and Expressionism. The 1932 Memorial Stone for Paul van Ostaijen is carved out of bluestone and depicts a sleeping angel. The monument stands in the Schoonselhof municipal cemetery in Antwerp. Jespers made a preliminary study of it in plaster and bronze.
| Artist |
Oscar Jespers
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| Title | Model for the Tomb of the Writer Paul van Ostaijen |
| Date | ca. 1931 - ca. 1932 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Antwerp TGN |
| Medium and support | patination AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom left: O. Jespers |
| Collection | sculpture AAT |
| Object type | bronze AAT |
| Inventory number | 1960-M |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1960-M |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2656/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
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figures (representations)
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300055865 Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
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(symbolic) representations ~ creation, cosmos, cosmogony, universe, and life (in the broadest sense)
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31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA236 lying figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 42E3 grave, tomb and other grave-forms and grave-markers Iconclass 42E31 grave, tomb Iconclass 48C91 writer, poet, author Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 61B2(VAN OSTAIJEN, Paul) historical person (VAN OSTAIJEN, Paul) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Expressionist (style)
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Modernist AAT |
| Oscar Jespers : Zijn beeldhouwwerk met een overzicht van de tekeningen ; De activiteiten van een Vlaamse kunstenaar gedurende een halve eeuw: van 1912 tot 1968 ; met een volledig geïllustreerde kritische en gedocumenteerde catalogus van de beeldhouwwerken = Sculptures et dessins : Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculptural = Sculpture and Drawings : Catalogue raisonné of the Sculpture = Skulpturen und Zeichnungen : Katalog der Skulpturen / José Boyens. - Antwerpen : Stichting Mercator-Plantijn, 1982 (p. 163-167, 359, nr. 139A) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 269 (ill. 179), 269) |
| Flämischer Glanz : Kunst vom Jugendstil zum Modernismus ; Gemälde und Raumkunst von 1885 bis 1935 (Ausstellung Berlin, Bröhan-Museum, 1. Oktober 2004 - 30. Januar 2005) / Lieven Daenens, Ingeborg Becker, Norbert Poulain, Marc Dubois. - Berlin : Bröhan-Museum (Berlijn), 2004 (p.110) |
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