Géo Verbanck

Géo Verbanck was a Belgian sculptor who taught at the Royal Academies of Fine Arts at Dendermonde and Ghent. He was also a member of several advisory committees and participated at innumerable exhibitions at home and abroad. Initially, he was trained as a woodcarver and later studied in Ghent and Bruxelles. Verbanck’s body of work is vast and extremely diversified and included applied arts, memorial monuments, busts and heads as well as medaillons, plaques and medals, bas-reliefs and sculptures, often depicting children, women and families. He was considered one of the last classical sculptors and worked with many different materials.

Of the four works submitted by Géo Verbanck, only the information given in the catalog of the art competitions is known: the Football player was a plaster figure, the Negro athlete a wooden head, the Throw-in a silver-coated bronze figure and the Goalkeeper a bronze sculpture.