Guillaume Dumont Explained

Guillaume Dumont
Nationality:	Belgian
Occupation:	Sculptor
Birth Date:	1889
Birth Place:	Borgerhout, Belgium

Guillaume Dumont (born 1889, date of death unknown) was a Belgian sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Career

In 1921 he collaborated with the architect Leon Stynen to create a war memorial column (Herdenkingsmonument 1914–1918) in Knokke to commemorate the fallen of World War I.^{[2] [3]} From a total of 16 designs submitted, Stynen's was the one accepted, and Stynen collaborated with Dumont to make the monument. There is a plaque affixed to the monument on which Dumont's name is misspelled "Dupont".^[4]

The memorial consists of four standing figures representing soldiers leaning against a central column. The sculpture was inaugurated on 11 June 1922.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Guillaume Dumont . Olympedia . 30 July 2020.
2. News: Liu . Emerald . Casino Royale: Stynen's Unrealized Sculpture Garden . 6 January 2022 . Drawing Matter . 30 March 2021.
3. Web site: Memorial To The Fallen Knokke 1914-1918 - Leon Stynen . My Knokke . 2 July 2021 . 6 January 2022.
4. Web site: Commemorative column military victims of the First World War . onroerenderfgoed . 15 October 2003 . Flanders imagination works . 9 January 2022.