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Bovier, Léon
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur / Connected
Details
Life dates
Liège, 1865 - Knokke, 1923
Activity
1891 Liège, Rue du Vieux-Mayeur, 32
Lambert Léon, ° 6.3.1865. Photographic supplies. "Firm founded in 1889" (L'Echo de Courtrai, 22.8.1897). Already active as an amateur photographer in September 1886 when he was a member of the "Cercle des Touristes" and took views of the area between Spa and Stavelot. Recorded as a watchmaker domiciled in Liège, Rue Hocheporte at the occasion of his wedding in Liège on 6.7.1889.
1894 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Boulevard Anspach, 166<10-12> or 168<94-09; 14>
Partnership with Alphonse Roland (see that name) at this address, 1895-1897. Pictorialist (private address: Rue des Visitandines, 38). Photographs on canvas imitating genre paintings. Corresponding member of the "Société Photographique de Lille" in 1900. Secretary of the "Cercle d’art photographique l’Effort". Camera manufacturing. "Plates and papers of all makes. Recommended for radiographic laboratories. Construction of plate-holders for radiology" (Journal belge de radiologie, 1909). Reportedly lived in London [GB] from 1914 to 1917 and in Paris [F] from 1917 to 1918. Returned to Brussels after World War I. Bovier published several literary works in the 1920s under the pseudonym Léon Lambert. After his death, Bovier’s widow Antoinette Joséphine Marie Louise Robert (° Spa, 26.6.1868) was listed at this address under photographic suppliers until at least the 1950s. Their daughter "Madeleine" Marie Julie Pauline Bovier (° Brussels, 20.5.1896) would also play an active role in her father's succession.
1895 - 1898 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Vandeweyer, 72
Lambert Léon, ° 6.3.1865. Photographic supplies. "Firm founded in 1889" (L'Echo de Courtrai, 22.8.1897). Already active as an amateur photographer in September 1886 when he was a member of the "Cercle des Touristes" and took views of the area between Spa and Stavelot. Recorded as a watchmaker domiciled in Liège, Rue Hocheporte at the occasion of his wedding in Liège on 6.7.1889.
1894 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Boulevard Anspach, 166<10-12> or 168<94-09; 14>
Partnership with Alphonse Roland (see that name) at this address, 1895-1897. Pictorialist (private address: Rue des Visitandines, 38). Photographs on canvas imitating genre paintings. Corresponding member of the "Société Photographique de Lille" in 1900. Secretary of the "Cercle d’art photographique l’Effort". Camera manufacturing. "Plates and papers of all makes. Recommended for radiographic laboratories. Construction of plate-holders for radiology" (Journal belge de radiologie, 1909). Reportedly lived in London [GB] from 1914 to 1917 and in Paris [F] from 1917 to 1918. Returned to Brussels after World War I. Bovier published several literary works in the 1920s under the pseudonym Léon Lambert. After his death, Bovier’s widow Antoinette Joséphine Marie Louise Robert (° Spa, 26.6.1868) was listed at this address under photographic suppliers until at least the 1950s. Their daughter "Madeleine" Marie Julie Pauline Bovier (° Brussels, 20.5.1896) would also play an active role in her father's succession.
1895 - 1898 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Vandeweyer, 72
Locations
1891 Liège, Rue du Vieux-Mayeur, 32
1894 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Boulevard Anspach, 166<10-12> or 168<94-09; 14>
1895 - 1898 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Vandeweyer, 72
1894 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Boulevard Anspach, 166<10-12> or 168<94-09; 14>
1895 - 1898 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Vandeweyer, 72
Exhibitions
Lille, 1893 (bronze medal); Brussels, 1895; Ghent, 1895; Paris, 1895; Berlin, 1896 ("Christ au tombeau"); Brussels, 1896 ("Christ au tombeau"); Lille, 1896; Louvain, 1896; Paris, 1896 ("Christ au tombeau"); Caen, 1897; Paris, 1897; Paris, 1898; Ghent, 1899; Louvain, 1900 (first prize); Effort, 1901 (no address); Paris, 1901; Effort, 1902; Paris, 1902; Turin, 1902 (gold medal); Ghent ABP, 1903; Lille, 1903; Mons, 1904 (no forename; address given as Brussels, Rue du Chasseur); Saint-Quentin, 1907.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1894 - 1899
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#407
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 27.6.2017 & 3.2.2018, partly based on information supplied by Pool Andries; revised 2.1.2019; SFJ revised 2.11.2019, 6.3.2021, 1.6.2021 & 9.11.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 22.10.2020 & 1.2.2021; SFJ revised 16.6.2022; SFJ revised 1.3.2023 & 6.3.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 16.8.2023 based on information supplied by Jacques Evrard in email dated 7.8.2023; MD revised 11.6.2020, 13.11.2020, 10.2.2023, 9.3.2023, 5.6.2023, 8.4.2024 & 18.4.2024