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He was one of the most prominent renewers of ceramic
art in Belgium,strongly determined to give it a major part among the Decorative
Arts. He achieved his first ceramics in 1896 in the studio of Omer COPPENS,
following a career as a sculptor and drawer tag part in the new artistic currents of the end of
the century. In 1909 he worked in Federic HORTA’s factory after being awarded
a "Grand Prix" at the International Exhibition of Milan in 1906. He made his
first stonewares around 1914 at Stockheim-Fouches, then at Andenne.He
brilliantly associated his talent as a sculptor and as a ceramist, both for
utilitarians much like those achieved by FINCH from 1895 and for pieces sculpted
in stoneware or in enameled clay.
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