Printed: 2024-11-23
Béguin, Fernand
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Ottignies, 1878 - ?, ?
Activity
1899 * - 1905 Namur - Salzinnes, Rue Henri Blès, 53
Fernand Alexandre Ghislain Marie, ° 1.5.1878. Sometimes transcribed "Beguin".
1905 - 1908 Namur, Rue de la Croix, 30
Predecessor: Prévost François #
Landscapes and portraits, including of Emile Verhaeren, 1910 ca. He became a pictorialist after 1905.
1907 - 1914 > Namur, Rue Godefroid, 50<07-12> then 38<12-14>
"Any photographic work. 20 medals in exhibitions and competitions" (Mertons directory, 1910-1914). At this address supplies for photography and collotype. Co-founder and first vice-president of the "Union des Photographes Professionnels de Belgique" in 1911 and assessor of the "Fédération Nationale des Photographes Professionels de Belgique" in 1913.
Béguin went on to publish postcards of Namur landmarks destroyed in 1914. Advertised in October 1919 that he had reinstalled himself at this address (Vers L'Avenir, 14.10.1919). In 1921 he established himself in Louvain and acquired Prosper Morren‘s studio. Remained active throughout the interwar period. Again listed as a member of the ABP in 1922. Still in Louvain in 1944, Béguin sold a collection of over 200 prints of Namur and its region to the "Service de la documentation belge des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire", now kept in the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels.
Fernand Alexandre Ghislain Marie, ° 1.5.1878. Sometimes transcribed "Beguin".
1905 - 1908 Namur, Rue de la Croix, 30
Predecessor: Prévost François #
Landscapes and portraits, including of Emile Verhaeren, 1910 ca. He became a pictorialist after 1905.
1907 - 1914 > Namur, Rue Godefroid, 50<07-12> then 38<12-14>
"Any photographic work. 20 medals in exhibitions and competitions" (Mertons directory, 1910-1914). At this address supplies for photography and collotype. Co-founder and first vice-president of the "Union des Photographes Professionnels de Belgique" in 1911 and assessor of the "Fédération Nationale des Photographes Professionels de Belgique" in 1913.
Béguin went on to publish postcards of Namur landmarks destroyed in 1914. Advertised in October 1919 that he had reinstalled himself at this address (Vers L'Avenir, 14.10.1919). In 1921 he established himself in Louvain and acquired Prosper Morren‘s studio. Remained active throughout the interwar period. Again listed as a member of the ABP in 1922. Still in Louvain in 1944, Béguin sold a collection of over 200 prints of Namur and its region to the "Service de la documentation belge des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire", now kept in the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels.
Locations
1899 * - 1905 Namur - Salzinnes, Rue Henri Blès, 53
1905 - 1908 Namur, Rue de la Croix, 30
1907 - 1914 > Namur, Rue Godefroid, 50<07-12> then 38<12-14>
1905 - 1908 Namur, Rue de la Croix, 30
1907 - 1914 > Namur, Rue Godefroid, 50<07-12> then 38<12-14>
Exhibitions
Ghent, 1899; Mons, 1901; Paris, 1901; Brussels, 1902; Caen, 1903; Ghent ABP, 1903 (living in Ronet - Flawinne); Malines, 1903 (living in Ronet - Flawinne); Liège, 1905; Marseille, 1906.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1901 - 1911
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#174
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 20.2.2017, 11.9.2017 & 31.1.2018, partly based on information supplied by Pool Andries; SFJ revised 3.9.2019 & 29.4.2020; MCC revised 6.1.2020 & 7.3.2020; SFJ revised 18.9.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 6.3.2023 & 21.7.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 27.10.2020, 25.3.2021 & 5.5.2023