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Biskeborn, Charles
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Aschersleben [Saxony-Anhalt, D], 1836 - Berlin [D], 1902
Activity
1868 Ypres, Rue de l'Etoile
Herman Carl / Charles, ° 8.8.1836; + 2.4.1902. Took a series of 19 views of Ypres and its monuments, some in the collections of the municipal museum. On the occasion of King Leopold II's visit to Ypres on 3.8.1868, Biskeborn presented the king with an album "containing eighteen splendid views of our town and our main monuments" (Le Progrès, 23.8.1868). During a stay lasting until at least November 1868, Biskeborn played an active part in community life.
1868 ca Roulers
CV with a lithographed back label for "Biskeborn & Cie". Thereafter Biskeborn left Belgium. CV dated 6.7.1868 with an address in Vienna, probably prior to his arrival in Belgium; CV c. 1869: 9, Rue d'Esquermoise (corner of Grand Place), Lille [F]. Note that Lucien Frobert (see that name) occupied this studio in the 1870s. Biskeborn then moved on to the UK and was recorded in London - Uxbridge on 19.7.1869. He married in Dover on 18.8.1870 and thereafter operated mainly on the south coast of England. Biskeborn was recorded as a studio photographer in Chatham in 1871 and 1875, Bath in 1877 and then in Southsea later in the 1870s where a CV states “Photographic artist from Vienna”.
Biskeborn returned briefly to Belgium where he was recorded as a photographer aged 48 living in Liège, Boulevard d’Avroy, 18 on the occasion of the birth of a son on 19.7.1885. Other children were born when he was operating in Turin [I] on 8.5.1887, in Nice [F] on 14.4.1890 and Hanover [D] on 24.8.1898.
Herman Carl / Charles, ° 8.8.1836; + 2.4.1902. Took a series of 19 views of Ypres and its monuments, some in the collections of the municipal museum. On the occasion of King Leopold II's visit to Ypres on 3.8.1868, Biskeborn presented the king with an album "containing eighteen splendid views of our town and our main monuments" (Le Progrès, 23.8.1868). During a stay lasting until at least November 1868, Biskeborn played an active part in community life.
1868 ca Roulers
CV with a lithographed back label for "Biskeborn & Cie". Thereafter Biskeborn left Belgium. CV dated 6.7.1868 with an address in Vienna, probably prior to his arrival in Belgium; CV c. 1869: 9, Rue d'Esquermoise (corner of Grand Place), Lille [F]. Note that Lucien Frobert (see that name) occupied this studio in the 1870s. Biskeborn then moved on to the UK and was recorded in London - Uxbridge on 19.7.1869. He married in Dover on 18.8.1870 and thereafter operated mainly on the south coast of England. Biskeborn was recorded as a studio photographer in Chatham in 1871 and 1875, Bath in 1877 and then in Southsea later in the 1870s where a CV states “Photographic artist from Vienna”.
Biskeborn returned briefly to Belgium where he was recorded as a photographer aged 48 living in Liège, Boulevard d’Avroy, 18 on the occasion of the birth of a son on 19.7.1885. Other children were born when he was operating in Turin [I] on 8.5.1887, in Nice [F] on 14.4.1890 and Hanover [D] on 24.8.1898.
Locations
1868 Ypres, Rue de l'Etoile
1868 ca Roulers
1868 ca Roulers
Exhibitions
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Bibliography/Webography
Context
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#263
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 1.10.2018 based on information supplied by Jan De Wilde; SFJ revised 4.7.2019, 20.7.2019, 6.8.2019, 13.8.2020 & 18.11.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD / SFJ revised 2.6.2020 & 8.6.2020 based on information supplied by Phil Nichols (email dated 31.5.2020)