Guillaume Dumont

Guillaume Dumont
Born1889
Borgerhout, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
OccupationSculptor

Guillaume Dumont (born 1889, date of death unknown) was a Belgian sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[1]

Career

In 1921 he collaborated with the architect Leon Stynen to create a war memorial column (Herdenkingsmonument 1914–1918) in Knokke to commemorate the fallen of World War I.[2][3] From a total of 16 designs submitted, Stynen's was the one accepted, and Stynen collaborated with Dumont to make the monument. There is a plaque affixed to the monument on which Dumont's name is misspelled "Dupont".[4]

The memorial consists of four standing figures representing soldiers leaning against a central column. The sculpture was inaugurated on 11 June 1922.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Guillaume Dumont". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  2. ^ Liu, Emerald (30 March 2021). "Casino Royale: Stynen's Unrealized Sculpture Garden". Drawing Matter. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Memorial To The Fallen Knokke 1914-1918 - Leon Stynen". My Knokke. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Commemorative column military victims of the First World War". onroerenderfgoed. Flanders imagination works. 15 October 2003. Retrieved 9 January 2022.


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