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DILLENS, JULIEN (1849-1904)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 272 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DILLENS, JULIEN (1849-1904) , Belgian sculptor, was born at Antwerp on the 8th of June 1849, son of a painter, He studied under
Eugene
  Simonis at the Brussels
Academy
  of Fine Arts. In 1877 he received.the prix de Rome for " A Gaulish
Chief
  taken Prisoner by the Romans." At Brussels, in 1881, he executed the groups entitled " justice " and " Herkenbald, the Brussels Brutus." For the pediment of the orphanage at Uccle, " Figure Kneeling" (Brussels GalIery), and the statue of the lawyer Metdepenningen in front of the Palais de Justice at
Ghent
 , he was awarded the medal of honour in 1889 at the Paris Universal Exhibition, where, in 1900, his " Two Statues of the Anspach Monument" gained him a similar distinction. For the town of Brussels he executed "The Four Continents " (Maison du Renard, Grand' Place), " The Lansquenets " crowning the lucarnes of the Maison de Roi, and the " Monument t' Serclaes " under the arcades of the Maison de 1'Etoile, and, for the Belgian government, " Flemish Art," " German Art," " Classic Art " and " Art applied to Industry " (all in the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels), " The Laurel " (Botanic Garden, Brussels), and the statue of "
Bernard
  van Orley" (Place du petit Sablon, Brussels). Mention must also be made of " An Enigma " (1876), the bronze busts of " Rogier de la Pasture" and " P. P.
Rubens
  " (1879), " Etruria " (188o), " The Painter Leon Frederic " (1888), " Madame Leon Herbo," " Hermes," a
scheme
  of decoration for the ogival facade of the hotel de ville at
Ghent
  (1893), " The Genius of the Funeral Monument of the Moselli Family," " The Silence of Death " (for the entrance of the cemetery of St Gilles), two caryatides for the town
hall
  of St Gilles, presentation plaquette to Dr Heger, medals of MM. Godefroid and Vanderkindere and of The Three Burgomasters of Brussels," and the ivories " Allegretto," " Minerva" and the " Jamaer Memorial." Dillens died at Brussels in November 1904.


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