Albert Verschuuren - Religious men

Albertus (Albert) Joannes Joseph Verschuuren (Tilburg 1887 – Oosterhout 1953) was a teacher at the predecessor of the Academy for Visual Education from 1921 to 1942. In addition, he acquired numerous commissions in and outside Tilburg for painting and sculpture, stained glass windows, book illustrations and funerary monuments. In 1912 he painted the portraits of Queen Regent Emma and Queen Wilhelmina, which hang in the Oranjezaal of the Palace and Town Hall. From 1915 he realized murals, statues of saints and stained glass windows in the Broekhovense Church I. In 1918 his murals were created in the Sint Caecilia Church in Enschot (Berkel-Enschot). In 1922 he made the stained glass windows in the Margarita Maria Church, for which he also provided an altar decoration in 1925. In 1923 Verschuuren made the statues of Saint Joseph and Saint Dominus for the facade of the Hasselt church, which are now located in the Lambert de Wijsstraat cemetery. He made twelve biblical paintings, the Stations of the Cross and stained glass windows for the same church in the twenties, thirties and forties. In 1928 he painted a representation of the reception of Philip of Burgundy, who in 1452 handed over the papers authorizing the appointment of seven aldermen to the lord of Tilburg and Goirle. This canvas is the property of Tilburg City Museum, which also owns several religious paintings and a self-portrait by Verschuuren. In 1930 he made the statue of Saint Odulphus for the facade of the Saint Odulphus Lyceum. In 1943, a statue of Mary by Verschuuren was placed on Merodeplein. Around the same time he designed the statue of Mary on the corner of Hasseltstraat and Kwaadeindstraat.