Printed: 2023-12-03
Desaix, Eugène
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Photographie Moderne (at Trois-Ponts); Phototypie Moderne (at Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe); Établissements Franco-Belges de Phototypie (at Rue de Moorslede and in Paris)
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Argenton [Indre, F], 1872 - ?, 1930
Activity
1900 ca - 1905 ca Trois-Ponts
° 30.12.1872. During this period, portrait studio at this address; subsequently, postcards published here.
1907 - 1910 Aywaille
Initially a portrait photographer as well as publisher of picture postcards here. On the occasion of his wedding in Aywaille on 12.9.1907, recorded as a photographer resident in Aywaille. Probably still active in Aywaille, c. 1913.
1912 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Henri Stacquet, 5
Collotype. Publisher of picture postcards with the collection title "La Belgique Historique". "Albums, catalogues and industrial work of all kinds" [Mertens, 1912].
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Laeken, Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10
"Photo-engraving, collotype and similar branches" [Mertens, 1914]. Publisher of picture postcards with the collection title "La Belgique Industrielle". The street was renamed "Rue de Moorslede" in 1919. Active at this address throughout the 1920s as well as in Paris [F], Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 10 in 1915 and Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 53 from 1919 and into the 1920s. Desaix published postcards with the collection title "La France Historique" under his Paris imprint.
° 30.12.1872. During this period, portrait studio at this address; subsequently, postcards published here.
1907 - 1910 Aywaille
Initially a portrait photographer as well as publisher of picture postcards here. On the occasion of his wedding in Aywaille on 12.9.1907, recorded as a photographer resident in Aywaille. Probably still active in Aywaille, c. 1913.
1912 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Henri Stacquet, 5
Collotype. Publisher of picture postcards with the collection title "La Belgique Historique". "Albums, catalogues and industrial work of all kinds" [Mertens, 1912].
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Laeken, Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10
"Photo-engraving, collotype and similar branches" [Mertens, 1914]. Publisher of picture postcards with the collection title "La Belgique Industrielle". The street was renamed "Rue de Moorslede" in 1919. Active at this address throughout the 1920s as well as in Paris [F], Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 10 in 1915 and Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 53 from 1919 and into the 1920s. Desaix published postcards with the collection title "La France Historique" under his Paris imprint.
Locations
1900 ca - 1905 ca Trois-Ponts
1907 - 1910 Aywaille
1912 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Henri Stacquet, 5
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Laeken, Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10
1907 - 1910 Aywaille
1912 Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Rue Henri Stacquet, 5
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Laeken, Rue de l'Archiduc Rodolphe, 10
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#1386
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 30.11.2017 & 19.2.2018; SFJ revised 30.10.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MCC revised 26.9.2020; SFJ revised 22.11.2020 & 17.8.2021; MD revised 13.11.2020 & 25.4.2023