Eugène DODEIGNE

(1923 – 2015)

French sculptor born in Belgium who played an important role in the history and development of sculpture in the second half of the 20th century | 1923 born in Rouvreux, Belgium | 1936~ learns from his father, who was a stonemason | 1957-60 teaches drawing at the “Écoles supérieures des arts Saint-Luc” in Tournai | 1985 joins the “Biennale de Paris” | 1988 exhibition at the Rodin Museum in Paris | 1995 participates in “Les Champs de la sculpture” | 1999 elected to the “Académie des Beaux-Arts” | 2002 exhibition at the “Fondation de Coubertin” | 2015 died near Bondues, France