The Sint-Michiels war memorial

In front of the old town hall, this memorial commemorates all WWI victims from the municipality of Sint-Michiels. Portraying its patron saint St Michael, it was designed by Baron Henri Kervyn de Lettenhove. He is also the man behind the great Bruges exhibitions ‘the Flemish Primitives' (1902), ‘Old Flemish Art' (1904) and ‘the Golden Fleece' (1907).

During the war, he wrote a book dedicated to his son Jacques, about the damage the war inflicted on art in Belgium. Commissioned by the Belgian Government (then in Le Havre), he organised an exhibition on this very topic in Paris.

Baron Henri designed other memorials: the commemorative plaque for the former students of Sint-Lodewijkscollege (now Zilverpand), the urn for the Unknown Soldier at the Congress Column in Brussels and presumably the memorial stone on the family tomb.

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