De Mare, Frédéric

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Gentilly [Val-de-Marne, F], 1861 - ?, ?

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1898 - 1913 Bruxelles - Molenbeek, Boulevard Léopold II, 122
° 16.2.1861. Surname at birth "Demare" subsequently modified to "De Mare" or "de Mare". Engineer, chemist, industrialist and inventor. Initially active in the gas and electricity sector during his early career in Paris, both as a prolific patentee and founder of companies, in France and abroad, to exploit these patents. De Mare moved to Belgium around 1898 where he continued his productive activity as an inventor, including in the fields of photography, cinematography and slide projection. Patent of 12.12.1898 for "photochromy or colour photography" by means of grains creating trichromatic images on a single plate.
De Mare registered a British patent for printing on metal with fatty inks in 1907 while his main commercial focus from 1906 to 1911 was the projection of still and moving images in full daylight, by a system he christened "Without Darkness". Entered several photography competitions run by the magazine "Photo pêle-mêle" in 1904. Brussels correspondant of the specialist French magazine "Ciné-Journal". De Mare's final patents, registered in 1912 and 1913, concerned ozone generation and filtering.

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1898 - 1913 Bruxelles - Molenbeek, Boulevard Léopold II, 122

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Bibliography/Webography

GÉRARD, Etienne. "Frédéric de Mare", Res Photographica, no. 203 (February 2018), pp. 26-31.
de MARE, Hélène & Patrick. "L'énigmatique Frédéric de Mare", Res Photographica, no. 214 (December 2019), pp. 15-20.

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DIRECTORY_1997#1263

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SFJ revised 27.6.2022; SFJ revised 1.4.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght

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