Printed: 2025-06-16
Adelot, Edouard
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Brussels - Ixelles, 1871 - Brussels - Saint-Josse, 1937
Activity
1894 - 1908 Bruxelles - Ixelles
° 16.11.1871; + 20.1.1937. Pictorialist. Member of the "Cercle Photographique d’Ixelles". Member of the "Photoclub de Louvain" with an address in Louvain recorded in the membership list. Member of the "Cercle d’Art Photographique l’Effort". Member of the "Club d’amateurs photographes de Belgique". Extremely clubbable, he designed photographic menus for the "Cercle des X", a private club, and photographed their numerous excursions in the 1890s. First prizewinner in two consecutive competitions for landscape photography organised by the "Touring Club de Belgique" in 1902 and 1903. Subsequently won second prize in that competition in 1904.
1909 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Etterbeek
Won first prize in an internal autochrome competition organized by the Brussels section of the ABP near the end of 1911; his winning ensemble was inspired by Edmond Rostand's poem "Les Nénuphars". Supplied images published in the form of picture postcards by the "Ligue des Amis de la Forêt de Soignes" in 1912. Adelot remained active in the 1920s and early 1930s. Listed as a member of the "Cercle d'Art Photographique" in 1922.
° 16.11.1871; + 20.1.1937. Pictorialist. Member of the "Cercle Photographique d’Ixelles". Member of the "Photoclub de Louvain" with an address in Louvain recorded in the membership list. Member of the "Cercle d’Art Photographique l’Effort". Member of the "Club d’amateurs photographes de Belgique". Extremely clubbable, he designed photographic menus for the "Cercle des X", a private club, and photographed their numerous excursions in the 1890s. First prizewinner in two consecutive competitions for landscape photography organised by the "Touring Club de Belgique" in 1902 and 1903. Subsequently won second prize in that competition in 1904.
1909 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Etterbeek
Won first prize in an internal autochrome competition organized by the Brussels section of the ABP near the end of 1911; his winning ensemble was inspired by Edmond Rostand's poem "Les Nénuphars". Supplied images published in the form of picture postcards by the "Ligue des Amis de la Forêt de Soignes" in 1912. Adelot remained active in the 1920s and early 1930s. Listed as a member of the "Cercle d'Art Photographique" in 1922.
Locations
1894 - 1908 Bruxelles - Ixelles
1909 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Etterbeek
1909 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Etterbeek
Exhibitions
Ixelles, 1895; Ixelles, 1896; Ixelles, 1898; Ixelles, 1899 (views of Switzerland); Ixelles, 1900; Brussels, 1901; Effort, 1901; Brussels, 1902; Effort, 1902; Paris, 1902; Ixelles, 1902; Antwerp (CEPSA), 1903; Budapest, 1903; Effort, 1903; Hamburg, 1903; Ixelles, 1903; Malines, 1903; Marseille, 1903; Paris, 1903; Saint Petersburg, 1903; Brussels, 1904; Effort, 1904; Paris, 1904; The Hague, 1904; Berlin, 1905; Brussels, 1905; Effort, 1905; Genoa, 1905; Ixelles, 1905; Liège, 1905; Vienna, 1905; Ixelles, 1906; Marseille, 1906; Paris, 1906; Ixelles, 1907; Brussels, 1907; Brussels, 1908; Brussels, 1908 ABP; Brussels, 1911; Ixelles, 1911; Liège, 1911 RET; Ghent, 1913; Liège, 1914.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1905 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#23
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 12.4.2017 & 31.1.2018, partly based on information supplied by Pool Andries; SFJ revised 2.1.2019, 9.1.2019, 5.3.2019, 9.3.2019, 3.4.2019, 12.4.2019, 4.6.2019 & 1.2.2021; SFJ revised 23.9.2019, 3.8.2020, 24.8.2020, 18.9.2020, 17.4.2021 & 28.5.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MCC revised 2.10.2020; SFJ revised 1.3.2023 & 6.3.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 18.6.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 25.3.2021, 7.11.2022, 26.1.2023, 31.1.2023, 9.3.2023, 13.3.2023 & 29.8.2023; SFJ revised 30.3.2025