Béguin, Fernand

Identity

Category

Person (Male)

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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.

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>

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.

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Affiliated entity

Association belge de Photographie

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Member of

Dates of affiliation

1901 - 1911

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Record source

DIRECTORY_1997#174

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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

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