Printed: 2025-07-08
Avanzo, Denis (Dionisio)
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Pieve Tesino [IT], 1852 - Brussels, 1936
Activity
1890 - 1894 Anvers, Marché aux Souliers, 37
° 15.8.1852. Domiciled in Brussels in 1890 and registered as a business clerk. Employee of G. Zazzarini & Co. Does not appear in the ABP membership lists between 1895 and 1897 when he left for Moscow to work as a print dealer with his brother Emiliano. A certain B. Avanzo operated a portrait studio in Moscow so it is possible they were working together at this time.
1898 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Marché aux Herbes, 86
Predecessor: Gecele Vve Sebastiano & Tessaro
Arrived in Brussels from Moscow on 7.1.1897. Representative of the Gecele studio, then successor to Veuve S. Gecele in 1909: in 1913, still described as the "former Gecele studio". Supplies for photographers and cameras; also dealer in photographs. Active member of the ABP Brussels section where he distributed samples for testing, for instance "Phébus" brand developer on 19.2.1900. There is a sample album of coloured carbon prints manufectured by Illingworth & Co. and sold by Avanzo in the holdings of "Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire" in Brussels.
Member of the "Club d’amateurs photographes de Belgique". Listed at this address in 1922 as a member of the ABP and of the "Cercle d'Art Photographique". Still trading at this address as "Avanzo Frères & Soeur, succ. Denis Avanzo" in 1935-1938 and "Maison D. Avanzo" in 1939; the business was run by two nephews until the late 1950s.
° 15.8.1852. Domiciled in Brussels in 1890 and registered as a business clerk. Employee of G. Zazzarini & Co. Does not appear in the ABP membership lists between 1895 and 1897 when he left for Moscow to work as a print dealer with his brother Emiliano. A certain B. Avanzo operated a portrait studio in Moscow so it is possible they were working together at this time.
1898 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Marché aux Herbes, 86
Predecessor: Gecele Vve Sebastiano & Tessaro
Arrived in Brussels from Moscow on 7.1.1897. Representative of the Gecele studio, then successor to Veuve S. Gecele in 1909: in 1913, still described as the "former Gecele studio". Supplies for photographers and cameras; also dealer in photographs. Active member of the ABP Brussels section where he distributed samples for testing, for instance "Phébus" brand developer on 19.2.1900. There is a sample album of coloured carbon prints manufectured by Illingworth & Co. and sold by Avanzo in the holdings of "Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire" in Brussels.
Member of the "Club d’amateurs photographes de Belgique". Listed at this address in 1922 as a member of the ABP and of the "Cercle d'Art Photographique". Still trading at this address as "Avanzo Frères & Soeur, succ. Denis Avanzo" in 1935-1938 and "Maison D. Avanzo" in 1939; the business was run by two nephews until the late 1950s.
Locations
1890 - 1894 Anvers, Marché aux Souliers, 37
1898 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Marché aux Herbes, 86
1898 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Marché aux Herbes, 86
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
CLAES, Marie-Christine. Répertoire des Tesini - Avanzo: http://balat.kikirpa.be/tesini/fam/avanzo.pdf
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1890 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#135
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 31.1.2017; MCC revised 20.5.2018, 25.1.2019 & 4.8.2019; SFJ revised 20.9.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MCC revised 9.12.2019; MD revised 8.11.2022 & 5.5.2023; SFJ revised 10.12.2023 based on information supplied by Pool Andries