© Toerisme Oostende
° 3/8/1907, Tienen – † 6/12/1953, Oostende
Gaston Eysselinck gifted Oostende one of its most iconic buildings: the post office building on Hendrik Serruyslaan. His modernist design broke radically with classical architecture and brought an example of functionality and progressiveness to the City by the Sea.
During the finishing stages in 1953, Eysselinck clashed with the client and was denied access to the construction site. Shortly after, he chose an early farewell. The building was completed, but without the sculpture by his friend Jozef Cantré, which was only added in 1963. “The Communication Media”, a monumental relief featuring a winged goddess and four female figures representing the world’s races, gave the building the symbolism that Eysselinck had intended.
Today, his legacy lives on in cultural center De Grote Post, a beacon of modernity in a city that always looks to the future.
