Eugène van Dievoet

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1923: Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Brussels), personal home of the architect Eugène van Dievoet, rue Vergote, 30.

Eugène van Dievoet (born May 9, 1862 in Brussels ; † March 20, 1937 ) was a Belgian architect during the Art Deco and Beaux-Arts architecture and recipient of the Order of the Leopold .

Life

Eugène van Dievoet was born in 1862 to Ernest Jean-Louis van Dievoet (July 16, 1835 in Brussels-August 28, 1903 in Saint-Gilles) and Léonie Joséphine Françoise Most (July 14, 1838 in Antwerp - 1943 in Brussels). He began his career as an architect in the military and attended the Royal Military Academy of Belgium . At the academy he became a technician, engineer and finally a professor. In 1936 he became a member of the Royal Society for Classical Studies of Brussels ( Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles ).

After his time in the military, he continued to work as a civilian architect and constructed various houses in the style of Art Deco or Beaux-Arts . The catalog of his works, both civil and military, is still incomplete.

He was married to Léonie Quarez, born in Liège May 22, 1865 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert ( Brussels ) December 6, 1944. They had no children.

Works

  • 1922, Schaerbeek, the “Maison Brison”, boulevard Reyers, 120 (house made of blue stone in the Louis XV style ).
  • 1923, Brussels, rue des Fabriques, n ° 32: Beaux-Arts- style town house .
  • 1923, Brussels, rue des Fabriques n ° 32A à 36A, apartments in the style of Art Deco .
  • 1923, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Brussels), the architect's personal home, rue Vergote, 30 (previously n ° 14).

bibliography

  • 1935: Histoire de l'École militaire, 1834-1934 , Brussels, Marcel Hayez printer, 1935, page 361.
  • 1936: Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles , March 2, 1936.
  • 1993: Le patrimoine monumental de la Belgique , Brussels, Pentagone EM, Brussels, Pierre Mardaga, editor, 1993, volume 1B, page 41.
  • 2003: Anne Van Looo (dir.), Dictionnaire de l'Architecture en Belgique de 1830 à nos jours , Anvers, Fonds Mercator, 2003, page 561.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles , " 2 mars 1936, nouveau membre effectif, Eugène Van Dievoet, ingénieur, 14, rue Vergote ". (The house number will later be 30).

gallery

  • 1922: Maison Brison, boulevard Reyers, 120 (Louis XV style).

  • 1923: Brussels, rue des Fabriques, 32, beaux-arts style house.

  • 1923: Brussels, rue des Fabriques, 32A-36A, Art Deco style apartment blocks.

  • 1923: Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Brussels), personal home of the architect Eugène van Dievoet, rue Vergote, 30.

personal data
SURNAME Van Dievoet, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian architect in the Art Deco period
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1937