Valeer Peirsman

Valeer Peirsman (20 April 1932[1] - 29 March 2020) was a Belgian sculptor.[2]

Biography

Peirsman was born in Tielrode. He took lessons at the Academy of Sint-Niklaas: figure drawing, anatomy and painting with Georges Fonteyn, modeling with Robert Van de Velde. At the Academie van Temse he followed painting with Jos Hoste. Later he followed at the same academy sculpting after a living model with Werner Heyndrickx for five years.

Four years in a row he won the Eerste Prijs and at the end of (1967) he won the Grote Gouden Staatsmedaille for sculpture with the highest distinction (95%). In the meantime he had become a teacher at the Academie van Temse (1964).

Over the years, he sharpened his knowledge and skills through self-study and museum visits in Belgium and abroad. Where he initially created mainly free work, this changed in the late 1970s. He increasingly received requests, especially after he finished his teaching assignment (1987). From then on he devoted himself entirely to art, and he received more and more requests and regularly exhibited his work.

A biography of Peirsman, written by Luc De Ryck and Jean-Pierre De Bruyn, was published in 2002.[3]

Persman died on 29 March 2020 in Steendorp, aged 88.[4]

References
  1. "Beeldhouwer Valeer Peirsman en Mia De Decker halve eeuw getrouwd". Waaskrant.
  2. "Borstbeeld Willy Vandersteen van Valeer Peirsman onthuld". Waaskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  3. "Valeer Peirsman | De Slegte". www.deslegte.com.
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