Sjef Eijmael
Joseph Hendrik (Sjef) Eijmael (Valkenburg aan de Geul, 18 april 1921 - Maastricht, 14 oktober 2007) was a Dutch sculptor.
Eijmael was a son of sculptor Josef Hendrik Eijmael (1894-1968) and Catharina Maria Elisabeth van Grootel. He was educated at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, with Charles Vos. Just 18 years old, he designed a Holy Heart statue for Hoensbroek, which was sculpted by his father. He continued his studies under Jan Bronner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam.
From 1944 he lived and worked in Maastricht and from 1986 in Voeren. He was a traditional sculptor who worked figurative. Eijmael died in 2007, at age 86, in the Academic Hospital Maastricht.
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