Ducaju, Jozef Jacques
⚬1823/08/31 - †1891/07/05
Jozef Jacques Ducaju was born on 31 August 1823 in Antwerp, the son of Maria De Beuckelaer and Alexander Ducaju. From 1841 to 1847, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, where his teachers included the sculptor Jozef Geefs (1808 - 1885). In 1846, Ducaju came second at the Prix de Rome. From 1848, he regularly participated in the triennial Salons in Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels. He won the gold medal in Brussels in 1848 with the plaster sculpture 'Dying Boduognat'. Throughout his career, he took commissions for public monuments. In 1865, for instance, the statue of the humanist Gabriel Mudaeus was inaugurated in Brecht and that year he also made a statue of David Teniers, which was placed in the garden of the Academy. In 1867, he made St George and the Dragon for St George's Church in Antwerp. His oeuvre also included two statues of Leopold II: in 1873, he made a statue for Ekeren and, in 1880, a bust for Antwerp. When the Royal Museum of Fine Arts was built in Antwerp, Ducaju provided busts of Jan Van Eyck and Quinten Matsijs. In addition to his individual artistic activities, he taught at the Royal Academy of Antwerp from 1886 and was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium from 1863. He was also a member of the Commission of Monuments and the Museum of Antiquities. Ducaju died in 1891 in Antwerp at the age of 67.
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