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Abraham Hesselink
(1862–1930)
Hesselink was born at Peterswold, near Groningen, and studied at the
Academy at Amsterdam under Shacké, and later in Brussels, under Van
der Stappen. The Municipal Museum, as well as the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam,
afford examples of his statuary, which is also to be seen at the Peace
Palace at The Hague, where there are figures of Commerce, and Industry.
At the St. Louis Exhibition, in 1904, he was awarded a bronze medal
for his Arab Women, and, in 1920, at the International Exhibition
at Venice, his Felicity, in bronze, was shown. His Struggle
of the Titans, for which a gold medal was awarded in Brussels, is
in the Rijksmuseum as an indication of the best features of the group
to which its author belongs. Its principles are sound, and, for the
most part, traditional, as is the case in all Hesselink's work. The
sculptor's portrait-bust of Prince Hendrik was lent to the Brighton
Exhibition in 1920, and gave it distinction, and his Toureg
was also on exhibition there, both these works being seen in 1921 at
the Whitechapel Exhibition in London.
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