Big Bird at the Middelheim Museum

André Willequet ( born January 3, 1921 in Brussels, Belgium ; † 1 July 1998 in Uccle, Belgium ) was a Belgian sculptor. Willequet was born in Brussels, but grew up in Luxembourg. He studied from 1940 to 1945 with the sculptor Oscar Jespers at the Belgian Ecole Nationale Superieure des arts visuels - Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture previously et des Arts Décoratifs in Brussels. In 1947 he was awarded the second prize at the award ceremony of the Prix de Rome. He made a trip to France and meet the artists Constantin Brancusi, Ossip Zadkine and Henri Laurens. From 1951 to 1952 he studied at the Royal College of Art in London in the sculptors Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore. In 1959 he went to Florence and Rome and was invited as a stone sculptor to the first European Sculpture Symposium St. Margarethen with Karl Prantl in Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland. The style of Willequet changed from figurative representational style to abstract art. He worked with wood, stone, bronze and steel. Some of his works can be found in the region of Brussels.(Credit; Wikipedia)This object is part of Scan The World. Scan the World is a non-profit initiative introduced by MyMiniFactory, through which we are creating a digital archive of fully 3D printable sculptures, artworks and landmarks from across the globe for the public to access for free. Scan the World is an open source, community effort, if you have interesting items around you and would like to contribute, email [e-mail] to find out how you can help.Scanned : Photogrammetry (Processed using Agisoft PhotoScan)