Printed: 2024-12-20
Gaspar, Charles
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Arlon, 1871 - Arlon, 1950
Activity
1891 - 1914 > Arlon
° 31.1.1871; + 30.4.1950. Sometimes wrongly transcribed "Gaspard". Pioneering pictorialist and prolific exhibitor. Still lifes, portraits, and genre studies. Autochromes and platinum printing or pseudo-platinum, i.e. matte silver-chloride paper with platinum toning. Affiliated to the Brussels section of the ABP. Member of the "Cercle d'art photographique l'Effort", as mentioned in the exhibition catalogue for the "Photo-Club de Paris" salon of 1906. Numerous images published in photography magazines in Belgium and abroad. Still a member of the ABP in 1922. Member of the "Institut Archéologique du Luxembourg" in 1925. Active in local charitable initiatives.
Gaspar left his town mansion and contents to the town of Arlon, where the "Musée Gaspar" houses his photographic collection, including 360 vintage prints and notebooks. There are also substantial holdings of original prints in the "Musée de la Photographie" in Charleroi and the Photography Museum in Antwerp. The "Musée Gaspar" also possesses an ensemble of 42 exhibition medals and plaques awarded to the photographer, the largest extant collection in Belgium.
° 31.1.1871; + 30.4.1950. Sometimes wrongly transcribed "Gaspard". Pioneering pictorialist and prolific exhibitor. Still lifes, portraits, and genre studies. Autochromes and platinum printing or pseudo-platinum, i.e. matte silver-chloride paper with platinum toning. Affiliated to the Brussels section of the ABP. Member of the "Cercle d'art photographique l'Effort", as mentioned in the exhibition catalogue for the "Photo-Club de Paris" salon of 1906. Numerous images published in photography magazines in Belgium and abroad. Still a member of the ABP in 1922. Member of the "Institut Archéologique du Luxembourg" in 1925. Active in local charitable initiatives.
Gaspar left his town mansion and contents to the town of Arlon, where the "Musée Gaspar" houses his photographic collection, including 360 vintage prints and notebooks. There are also substantial holdings of original prints in the "Musée de la Photographie" in Charleroi and the Photography Museum in Antwerp. The "Musée Gaspar" also possesses an ensemble of 42 exhibition medals and plaques awarded to the photographer, the largest extant collection in Belgium.
Locations
1891 - 1914 > Arlon
Exhibitions
Amsterdam, 1895; Hamburg, 1895; Paris, 1895; Brussels, 1896; Lille, 1896; Louvain, 1896; Paris, 1896; Courtrai, 1897; Paris, 1897; Brussels, 1898; Nancy, 1898; Paris, 1898; Ghent, 1899; Louvain, 1900 (first prize); Armentières, 1901; Caen, 1901; Effort, 1901 (no address); Mons, 1901 (no address); Paris, 1901; Brussels, 1902; Effort, 1902 (no address); Paris, 1902; Turin, 1902 (silver medal); Budapest, 1903; Caen, 1903; Effort, 1903; Hamburg, 1903; Marseille, 1903; Paris, 1903; Saint-Petersburg, 1903; Effort, 1904; Louvain, 1904; Paris, 1904; The Hague, 1904; Berlin, 1905; Effort, 1905; Genoa, 1905 (bronze medal); Liège, 1905; Marseille, 1905; Vienna, 1905; Vienna, 1905 CAM; Marseille, 1906; Paris, 1906; Dresden, 1909; Ghent, 1913; Liège, 1914.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
SPRINGAEL, Maïté. Charles Gaspar (1871-1950). Première approche de l'oeuvre du photographe pictorialiste belge. Bruxelles, 2006-2007 (2 vols), vol. 1 text, (iii) + 75 + xx pp.; vol. 2 annexes, lxxiv + (55) pp. Unpublished dissertation presented at the "Université libre de Bruxelles".
SPRINGAEL, Maïté. "Charles Gaspar à l'aune du Pictorialisme", Bulletin trimestriel de l'Institut Archéologique du Luxembourg – Arlon, 85e année, 2009, pp. 129-178. Study accompanying the exhibition "Le Musée Gaspar a 5 ans. Charles Gaspar (1871-1950) Photographe et Mécène : un héritage pour Arlon".
PEUCKERT, Valérie. "Charles Gaspar (1871-1950), un portrait pictorialiste", Bulletin trimestriel de l'Institut Archéologique du Luxembourg – Arlon, 99e année, no. 3/4, 2023, pp. 19-88. Study accompanying an exhibition of the same name held at the "Musée Gaspar" in Arlon.
SPRINGAEL, Maïté. "Charles Gaspar à l'aune du Pictorialisme", Bulletin trimestriel de l'Institut Archéologique du Luxembourg – Arlon, 85e année, 2009, pp. 129-178. Study accompanying the exhibition "Le Musée Gaspar a 5 ans. Charles Gaspar (1871-1950) Photographe et Mécène : un héritage pour Arlon".
PEUCKERT, Valérie. "Charles Gaspar (1871-1950), un portrait pictorialiste", Bulletin trimestriel de l'Institut Archéologique du Luxembourg – Arlon, 99e année, no. 3/4, 2023, pp. 19-88. Study accompanying an exhibition of the same name held at the "Musée Gaspar" in Arlon.
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1895 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#1791
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 20.4.2017, 28.1.2018 & 1.2.2018, partly based on information supplied by Pool Andries; revised 4.5.2018; SFJ revised 27.2.2019, 5.3.2019 & 17.4.2019; SFJ revised 8.4.2020, 18.9.2020, 6.3.2021 & 25.11.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 22.10.2020, 1.2.2021 & 7.10.2022; SFJ revised 1.3.2023, 6.3.2023 & 21.7.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 9.3.2023, 5.5.2023 & 19.10.2023; SFJ revised 28.4.2024 & 2.5.2024