- Charles Samuel
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La Brabançonne, Brussels, 1930. (See 'Work')
Charles Samuel (1862 - 1939) was a Belgian sculptor, engraver and medalist.
Life
Samuel was born in Brussels and trained there. He studied engraving with Léopold Wiener, sculpture with Eugène Simonis, Joseph Jaquet and Charles van der Stappen, and medal-making with the goldsmith and sculptor Philippe Wolfers. He began his career in 1889, from his house and workshop in Ixelles, which was the first project of noted Belgian architect Henri Van Dievoet.
His wife was the French pianist Clotilde Kleeberg.
Work
- monument to the novelist Charles De Coster at the Place Flagey in Ixelles, modeled by Neel Doff, 1894
- work at the Botanical Garden of Brussels, circa 1898
- female figuration of La Brabançonne (Belgian national anthem, in French language of female though in Dutch of male grammatical gender), Surlet de Chokier square, Brussels, 1930
- bronze military memorial at the Ixelles Cemetery
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