Born in the city of Ghent (Flanders), Belgium, Verbanck spent his childhood in the care of a foster family at the countryside in Laarne.

He was appointed as an apprentice in the studio of Petrus Pauwels-D’Hondt, a sculptor and art-cabinetmaker who specialized in period pieces and church furniture.

[1] In 1896, Verbanck moved to another workplace, this time of the renowned sculptor Aloïs de Beule, who ran a studio which produced a broad range of artwork such as crucifixes, Stations of the Cross, allegorical statues, steles and busts.

Not only Geo Verbanck, but also his fellow apprentices Leon Sarteel and Oscar Sinia, acquired in this studio the skills of making artwork using different materials.

[5] In 1912, he was officially commissioned to design the Monument in honour of the Van Eyck brothers Hubert and Jan in Ghent, together with the architect Valentin Vaerwyck, who was in charge of the architectural part.

The brothers Van Eyck were the medieval painters of the Ghent altarpiece Adoration of the Mystic Lamb .With great interest, the internationally financed monument was inaugurated by King Albert on 9 August 1913 at the World's Fair.

[6] Geo Verbanck was awarded numerous public commissions that included monuments, war memorials and decorations for buildings.

[11] Thanks to his broad crafts education he thoroughly mastered working with all kinds of materials:bronze, bluestone, marble, Euville (limestone), ivory and various types of wood.

His education at the academies in Ghent and Brussels allowed him to develop his own delicate figurative language in which a classical purity, harmony and intuitive feeling of the right dimension prevailed.

He designed amongst others challenge cups in silver, jewellery/memory boxes in wood, little wooden clocks, bookends in sandstone and a bronze radiator cap for luxury cars.