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Throughout his career
Verbanck shared his technical knowledge and artistic vision with others. From 1911 until 1927, he taught at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dendermonde. In 1924 he was also appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent where he taught until his retirement in
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and various types of wood. His education at the academies in Ghent and
Brussels allowed him to develop his own delicate figurative language in which a classical purity, harmony and intuitive feeling of the right dimension prevailed. While his work was originally influenced by the curved lines of
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Verbanck was awarded numerous public commissions that included monuments, war memorials and decorations for buildings. His private commissions consisted mainly of funeral monuments, portrait busts and medallions and medals. In his free works of art the emotions of women and children, and the
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There also was a remarkable collaboration during the interwar period with the
Kortrijkse Kunstwerkstede Gebroeders De Coene, a furniture and interior design company, for whom he designed a number of bronze decorative objects such as furniture decoration, door plates and interior decoration.
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Verbanck's first assignments at the Academy of Ghent was teaching the decorative arts curriculum. He designed amongst others challenge cups in silver, jewellery/memory boxes in wood, little wooden clocks, bookends in sandstone and a bronze radiator cap for luxury cars.
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Verbanck had a solid reputation for the design of funeral monuments. He covered the whole range of portrait medallions, busts, bas-reliefs and statues. Verbanck's work can be found in Ghent (4 cemeteries, of which the
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The Geo
Verbanck medal catalogue contains 34 art medals. The influence of Art Nouveau and Art Deco is clearly visible in the medals. He also designed 3 emergency coins for the city of Ghent during WW1.
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Verbanck was a well-known portraitist. In many busts, medallions and plaques he achieved an intense expressivity with a refined psychological dimension. He made portraits of
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Verbanck, "De techniek in de beeldhouwkunst", Brussel, Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, 1949
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Verbanck is considered one of the last classical sculptors in
Belgium. Thanks to his broad crafts education he thoroughly mastered working with all kinds of materials:
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Verbanck believed in the harmonious complementarity between sculpture and architecture. He was a member of the art association "l'Art
Monumental" and other societies.
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Poulain, Norbert, "Leven en werk van Geo Verbanck", 1991, Tentoonstelling Geo Verbanck, Koninklijke en Soevereine Gilde van Sint-Joris, Ghent.
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Demey, Anthony, "Geo Verbanck, beeldhouwer", 1995, Province of East-Flanders, Ghent. Official monography about Geo Verbanck.
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Demey, Anthony, "Geo Verbanck, beeldhouwer", 1995, Province of East-Flanders, Ghent. Official monography about Geo Verbanck.
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When he retired in 1941, Verbanck was awarded the Belgian state prize "Great prize of plastic arts" for his entire oeuvre.
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Engelen & Marx, "La sculpture en Belgique à partir de 1830", Louvain, 2006, 4344 pages, volume VII, p. 3949-3957
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Van Doosselaere, V. (1913). "Hommage international aux frères Hubert et Jean Van Eyck, compte-rendu", 63 pages, Ghent.
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A. Capiteyn & J. Decavele (1981). "In Steen en Brons van Leven en Dood", 334 p., City of Ghent, City Archive.
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The Saint-Lucas schools and the neo-gothic art (nl), Kadoc paper nbr 5, University Press, Louvain, 1988, page 340
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Verbanck became more noted by participating in exhibitions and salons in his home country and abroad.
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Residence architect Valentin Vaerwyck, (1918), Ghent, Kortrijksesteenweg, portal
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