Léandre Grandmoulin

Belgian artist Léandre Grandmoulin studied in Brussels from 1892-99 at the Academie Royale de Beaux Arts under Charles van der Stappen. He worked as assistant in various studios. After winning the Prix de Rome twice (1898 and 1900) he made a study trip to Rome in 1900. He was a sculptor and painter and from 1922-53 a professor in St-Gilles/Brussels. In 1922 he was a founding member of the Uccle Centre of Art and in 1941 member of the Academie Royale. He created the war memorial for those killed in action during World War I in Antwerp and Uccle. Grandmoulin designed busts and allegories, monuments of historical personalities, individual figures and reliefs. He was looking for a compromise between tradition and modernity, working in bronze, marble, granite, terracotta and plaster.

The submitted works probably included two stone reliefs, which were placed on the portals of the Heizel Stadium in Brussels, built in 1930, with the motifs Football and Shot-put. In 1920 in Antwerpen, the winners of the individual competitions received a bronze statuette (The victorious athlete), in addition to their medal, which was also designed by Grandmoulin. This statuette was made of bronze, 28 centimeters high and stood on an 8 cm marble base.