DE CLERCK, OSCAR (Belgian, 1892-1968)

De Clerck studied sculpture at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in his native city of Ghent (Belgium). He subsequently was made a member of the Royal Society of Fine Arts of Belgium. Early on De Clerck’s sculptures show an impressionist spirit. However during the 1920s and 1930s De Clerck championed the Cubist and Art Deco styles along with the Expressionist movement in Belgium. The use of both styles as adopted in his figure sculptures of the period is featured in Lovers (1931).

He worked as a curator at the Ostende Musée des Beaux-Arts (Belgium) for many years where, alongside with the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, there are prominent examples of his work.

Public collections include:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ostende
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels