George Minne studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Ghent between 1879 and 1886. The group of artists with whom he would subsequently work end exhibit in Ghent would later become known as the mystic symbolists. They praised the emotional strength of Minne's statues from this period. Minne also exhibited at an exhibition of Les XX, an avant-garde group of artists from Brussels. Minne is considered one of Europe's most important symbolic sculptors.
George Minne
Gent 1866 - Sint-Martens-Latem 1941
