Frans Deckers

Frans Deckers (20 March 1835 – 18 October 1916)[1] was a Belgian sculptor.

Joannes Franciscus Deckers was born in Antwerp on 20 March 1835, to Jean François Deckers (born in Merksem, circa 1800), a baker, and Maria Catharina Stumpers (born in Eindhoven, circa 1804).

[2] Frans Deckers studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he was taught by Joseph Geefs.

He taught, among others, visual artist Egidius Ludovicus Everaerts [nl].

He was interred in a family grave, at the Sint-Fredegandus cemetery in Deurne.

Grote Markt of Herentals , statue in honor of the " Peasant Warrior ", 1898