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Jespers, Oscar
(b Borgerhout, nr Antwerp, 22 May 1887; d Brussels, 1 Dec 1970). Belgian sculptor. The son of the Belgian sculptor Emile Jespers (1862–1918), he attended the Koninklijk Akademie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp from 1900 and the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten from 1908 to 1911. At the beginning of his career he came under the influence of Auguste Rodin, Rik Wouters, Constantin Meunier and George Minne, and later that of Ossip Zadkine. He was a friend of the Belgian painter Paul Joostens (1889–1960) and of the poet Paul Van Ostaijen. He made his first direct carvings in 1917 in a tentative Cubist style. His Constructivism began to assert itself in 1921, while he was finding a balance between material and technique, but later in the decade he moved towards Expressionism. In Brussels he belonged to Sélection and then to Le Centaure, and he formed friendships with Constant Permeke, Gustave De Smet, Frits Van den Berghe and Edgard Tytgat.
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