Printed: 2025-12-07
Collin (- Henin), Florent
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Marche-en-Famenne, 1871 - Marche-en-Famenne, 1928
Activity
1897 - 1914 > Marche, Place du Marché
Florent François Joseph, ° 16.7.1871; + 11.5.1928. Documented life and landscape in his region, taking views as far away as Bastogne, Dinant and Ciney. Some of his landscapes were published as picture postcards as early as around 1901. Collin was recorded as a tradesman living in Marche at the occasion of his wedding to Emma Maria Clothilde Henin (° Ciney, 9.12.1878; + 1974) in Dinant on 26.9.1911. Still advertising photographic supplies here in May 1915. Took portraits for ID cards ("Personal-Ausweise") under the German occupation during World War I. A surviving collection of over 430 glass negatives, discovered in a flea market in Arlon in 2023, formed the basis of an exhibition of modern prints from original negatives held at the "Famenne & Art Museum" in 2024.
Florent François Joseph, ° 16.7.1871; + 11.5.1928. Documented life and landscape in his region, taking views as far away as Bastogne, Dinant and Ciney. Some of his landscapes were published as picture postcards as early as around 1901. Collin was recorded as a tradesman living in Marche at the occasion of his wedding to Emma Maria Clothilde Henin (° Ciney, 9.12.1878; + 1974) in Dinant on 26.9.1911. Still advertising photographic supplies here in May 1915. Took portraits for ID cards ("Personal-Ausweise") under the German occupation during World War I. A surviving collection of over 430 glass negatives, discovered in a flea market in Arlon in 2023, formed the basis of an exhibition of modern prints from original negatives held at the "Famenne & Art Museum" in 2024.
Locations
1897 - 1914 > Marche, Place du Marché
Exhibitions
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Bibliography/Webography
(CASSART, Thibault). Florent Collin. Marche-en-Famenne, 2024, 91 pp.
Context
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#1196
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 18.1.2019; MD revised 9.2.2024 partially based on information supplied by Marc De Clercq; SFJ revised 31.3.2024 based on information supplied by Jean-Pol Weber; SFJ revised 26.6.2025