Dupuis, Toon |
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BORN 18 Feb 1877, Antwerpen - DIED 13 Oct 1937, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland BIRTH NAME Dupuis, Antoine Stanislaus Nicolas Louis GRAVE LOCATION Den Haag, Zuid-Holland: Oud Eik en Duinen, Laan van Eik en Duinen (1-4080) |
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Toon Dupuis was a Dutch sculptor of Belgian origin. He was educated by his father and aft the academy in Antwerp. He worked as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. Dupuis created the bust of the painter Jozef Israëls that is now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In 1921 he created a statue of Willem III for the Kasteelplein in Tilburg and in 1927 a statue of Petrus Canisius for the Hunnerpark in Nijmegen. He died in 1937 in the Hague. |
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 The grave of Toon Dupuis at the Oud Eik en Duinen Cemetery, The Hague. Picture by Androom (03 Aug 2007) |
