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Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944) 
Aliases: Fernand Schirren
Professions: Figure painter; Painter; Landscape painter; Still life painter
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FERDINAND SCHIRREN (1872-1944)
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FERDINAND SCHIRREN 1872 - 1944 Belgian School
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FERDINAND SCHIRREN (1872-1944)
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FERDINAND SCHIRREN 1872 - 1944 Belgian School LA
Biography: Schirren
(b Antwerp, 8 Nov 1872; d Brussels, Feb 1944). Belgian painter and sculptor. Born of Russian parents, he trained as a sculptor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In 1898 he was a co-founder of the group Labeur together with Auguste Oleffe, the Belgian painter Willem Paerels (1878–1962) and Louis Thévenet. One of his earliest sculptures is a mask of the Theosophist Madame Blavatsky (1898; see exh. cat., pl. 37). Around 1900 he suffered a nervous breakdown, after which he devoted himself largely to painting. His few sculptures are monumental and static, as in Eve with Apple (1910; see exh. cat., pl. 55).
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