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Claesen, Charles
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Etablissement photo-lithographique
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Connected
Details
Life dates
Liège, 1829 - Liège, 1886
Activity
1868 - 1886 + Liège, Rue du Jardin Botanique, 26
Successor: Claesen Joseph (& Cie)
Charles Simon, ° 14.6.1829; + 6.11.1886. Lithographer, printer and publisher. First traded as "Etablissement Photographique" then "Photo-lithographique". The publishing house of Charles Claesen, founded in 1857 and commercially successful in the 1870s and 1880s, supplied "works relating to architecture and art". He used photography relatively early, installing photolithographic equipment in 1868; in this early period he published pattern books and collections in line from old prints. Portrait CVs indicate that Claesen aIso operated a portrait studio for a short period, 1872 ca. In the first half of the 1870s he published works illustrated with albumen prints, but with the rise of the collotype he apparently abandoned photography in favour of this process. In the late 1870s and 1880s, publication of large-size albums, collections of applied and decorative art, illustrated in collotype.
Branches in Paris, 30, Rue des Saints-Pères and in Berlin, Alexandrinenstrasse, in 1880-1882. In his 1886 catalogue: "Printing plant in Liège. Studio for lithographic and intaglio printing, chromolithography, autography, photography, photolithography". His son Joseph succeeded him, but the company continued to trade as "Ch. Claesen, Printer-Publisher".
Successor: Claesen Joseph (& Cie)
Charles Simon, ° 14.6.1829; + 6.11.1886. Lithographer, printer and publisher. First traded as "Etablissement Photographique" then "Photo-lithographique". The publishing house of Charles Claesen, founded in 1857 and commercially successful in the 1870s and 1880s, supplied "works relating to architecture and art". He used photography relatively early, installing photolithographic equipment in 1868; in this early period he published pattern books and collections in line from old prints. Portrait CVs indicate that Claesen aIso operated a portrait studio for a short period, 1872 ca. In the first half of the 1870s he published works illustrated with albumen prints, but with the rise of the collotype he apparently abandoned photography in favour of this process. In the late 1870s and 1880s, publication of large-size albums, collections of applied and decorative art, illustrated in collotype.
Branches in Paris, 30, Rue des Saints-Pères and in Berlin, Alexandrinenstrasse, in 1880-1882. In his 1886 catalogue: "Printing plant in Liège. Studio for lithographic and intaglio printing, chromolithography, autography, photography, photolithography". His son Joseph succeeded him, but the company continued to trade as "Ch. Claesen, Printer-Publisher".
Locations
1868 - 1886 + Liège, Rue du Jardin Botanique, 26
Exhibitions
Vienna, 1873; Philadelphia, 1876; Paris, 1878; Brussels, 1880; Antwerp, 1885; Paris, 1889.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1880 - 1894
Description of relationship
Membership continued in Charles Claesen's name for eight years after his death, presumably the actual member being his son Joseph.
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#702
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 19.7.2017; SFJ revised 30.11.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght