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Benner, Victor
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional then Connected
Details
Life dates
Ghent, 1868 - ?, c. 1935
Activity
1892 - 1893 Gand, Place du Béguinage, 34 [Begijnhofplaats]
Victor Benoît Ferdinand, ° 11.11.1868. Moved to Antwerp, where he was recorded as a commercial traveller in the population register at Chaussée de Malines, 26 from 9.9.1893 to 15.9.1893 and then at Rue de la Commune, 55. Returned to Ghent on 13.3.1894.
1895 Wetteren, Zandstraat
CV dated 19.3.1895.
1895 * - 1896 / Bruxelles, Rue de la Madeleine, 7
Arrived here, coming from Ghent, on 5.8.1895 and presumably worked for the supply house of Ernest Peters at this address. At his wedding in Brussels - Etterbeek on 26.2.1896, Benner was recorded as a photographer. Left for Brussels - Ixelles on 12.3.1896 and was listed as a member of the "Cercle Photographique d'Ixelles" in that year. Subsequently moved to Brussels - Saint-Josse, back to Brussels and then to Brussels - Laeken in the period 1897 to 1899 when he may have been a journeyman photographer. Throughout the 1920s, listed in Brussels - Ixelles, Rue Darwin, 26. Benner traded as "Photo Hall (Victor Benner)" in Brussels - Uccle, Chaussée de Waterloo, 756 from 1932 to 1935 where he advertised "firm founded in 1892". His widow was then listed at this address, 1936-1937.
Victor Benoît Ferdinand, ° 11.11.1868. Moved to Antwerp, where he was recorded as a commercial traveller in the population register at Chaussée de Malines, 26 from 9.9.1893 to 15.9.1893 and then at Rue de la Commune, 55. Returned to Ghent on 13.3.1894.
1895 Wetteren, Zandstraat
CV dated 19.3.1895.
1895 * - 1896 / Bruxelles, Rue de la Madeleine, 7
Arrived here, coming from Ghent, on 5.8.1895 and presumably worked for the supply house of Ernest Peters at this address. At his wedding in Brussels - Etterbeek on 26.2.1896, Benner was recorded as a photographer. Left for Brussels - Ixelles on 12.3.1896 and was listed as a member of the "Cercle Photographique d'Ixelles" in that year. Subsequently moved to Brussels - Saint-Josse, back to Brussels and then to Brussels - Laeken in the period 1897 to 1899 when he may have been a journeyman photographer. Throughout the 1920s, listed in Brussels - Ixelles, Rue Darwin, 26. Benner traded as "Photo Hall (Victor Benner)" in Brussels - Uccle, Chaussée de Waterloo, 756 from 1932 to 1935 where he advertised "firm founded in 1892". His widow was then listed at this address, 1936-1937.
Locations
1892 - 1893 Gand, Place du Béguinage, 34 [Begijnhofplaats]
1895 Wetteren, Zandstraat
1895 * - 1896 / Bruxelles, Rue de la Madeleine, 7
1895 Wetteren, Zandstraat
1895 * - 1896 / Bruxelles, Rue de la Madeleine, 7
Exhibitions
Ghent, 1895.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#2316
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
MD new 2.12.2021; SFJ revised 1.3.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 10.12.2023 based on information supplied by Pool Andries; MD revised 26.4.2023, 10.11.2023 & 21.3.2024