Printed: 2024-07-27
Bressers, Léon
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Ghent, 1865 - Ghent, 1947
Activity
1889 - 1914 > Gand
° 4.11.1865; + 16.4.1947. Painter-decorator. KADOC (Leuven) houses a collection of more than 3000 of Bressers' glass-plate negatives. The collection contains family photographs as well as photographs documenting the activity of his family's business "Atelier Bressers", which specialised in church interiors, from monumental paintings and sculpture to furniture and liturgical objects. The archive also contains two of Bressers' notebooks, in which he meticulously documented his photographs and some of the techniques he used, including platinum and carbon printing.
° 4.11.1865; + 16.4.1947. Painter-decorator. KADOC (Leuven) houses a collection of more than 3000 of Bressers' glass-plate negatives. The collection contains family photographs as well as photographs documenting the activity of his family's business "Atelier Bressers", which specialised in church interiors, from monumental paintings and sculpture to furniture and liturgical objects. The archive also contains two of Bressers' notebooks, in which he meticulously documented his photographs and some of the techniques he used, including platinum and carbon printing.
Locations
1889 - 1914 > Gand
Exhibitions
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Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#2940
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Dates of creation/revision
MD new 11.3.2024 based on information supplied by Marc De Clercq