Art Nouveau Oak Photo Frame With Copper Decorations By Geo Verbanck

Belgium / 1905 / Photo Frame / Geo Verbanck / oak, copper / Art Deco / Art Nouveau

Photo frame in Art Nouveau style with copper decorations by the Belgium artist Geo Verbanck. This frame was hand crafted in caramel colored oak wood. Four corners are decorated with carvings of flowers and bronze plaquettes by Geo Verbanck. In the middle a circular space was left out for a picture or drawing.

Geo Verbanck was born in Ghent on 28 February 1881. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Geo Verbanck gradually became better known, partly through his participation in national and international exhibitions. In 1941 Verbanck was awarded the state prize "Grand Prize of the Plastic Arts" for his entire oeuvre. Verbanck is considered one of the last classical sculptors and "le poète de l'élégance". His education at the academies in Ghent and Brussels allowed him to develop his own sensitive figurative style in which a classical purity, harmony and an intuitive sense of the right dimension were paramount.