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Hannon, Edouard
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Brussels - Ixelles, 1853 - Brussels - Saint-Gilles, 1931
Activity
1874 - 1905 Bruxelles - Ixelles
Edouard Henri Paul Joseph Lorédan, ° 13.1.1853; + 23.1.1931. Younger brother of the painter and writer Théo Hannon (1851-1916). Student in Ghent in 1874-1875. Engineer. Director of "S.A. Solvay". Founder member of the ABP. In the ABP membership lists: Rue Crespel, 38 in 1882; Avenue (de) Limauge(s), 12 in 1883-1890; and Rue de la Concorde, 43 in 1891-1906, the latter a townhouse in Flemish Neo-Renaissance style built for Hannon by his childhood friend, Brussels architect Jules Brunfaut (1852-1942) in 1885.
Portraits of members of his family, documentation and photo-reportages during business trips to and stays in Russia, the United States, Spain and Italy. Pioneer of pictorialism in Belgium, co-organiser of the "Salon photographique" at the "Cercle artistique", Brussels, 1895, where the great names of French pictorialism such as Demachy and Puyo exhibited. Exhibited in the first four salons of the "Photo-Club de Paris", 1894-1897. Corresponding member of the "Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur-Photographie", Hamburg in 1899.
1906 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles, Rue de la Jonction, 1 (private)
Hannon had another Brussels townhouse built by Jules Brunfaut, this time in Art Nouveau style, at Rue de la Jonction in 1903-1904. Emile Gallé was commissioned to design the interior, completed by Louis Majorelle after Gallé’s death in November 1904. In the ABP membership lists, this address is recorded only from 1913, preceded by Brussels - Saint-Gilles, Rue Henri Wafelaers, no street number, in 1907-1912. Still a member of the ABP in 1922. The house used to be home to "L'Espace Photographique Contretype", trustees of a collection of Hannon’s negatives, from 1988 to 2014.
Edouard Henri Paul Joseph Lorédan, ° 13.1.1853; + 23.1.1931. Younger brother of the painter and writer Théo Hannon (1851-1916). Student in Ghent in 1874-1875. Engineer. Director of "S.A. Solvay". Founder member of the ABP. In the ABP membership lists: Rue Crespel, 38 in 1882; Avenue (de) Limauge(s), 12 in 1883-1890; and Rue de la Concorde, 43 in 1891-1906, the latter a townhouse in Flemish Neo-Renaissance style built for Hannon by his childhood friend, Brussels architect Jules Brunfaut (1852-1942) in 1885.
Portraits of members of his family, documentation and photo-reportages during business trips to and stays in Russia, the United States, Spain and Italy. Pioneer of pictorialism in Belgium, co-organiser of the "Salon photographique" at the "Cercle artistique", Brussels, 1895, where the great names of French pictorialism such as Demachy and Puyo exhibited. Exhibited in the first four salons of the "Photo-Club de Paris", 1894-1897. Corresponding member of the "Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur-Photographie", Hamburg in 1899.
1906 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles, Rue de la Jonction, 1 (private)
Hannon had another Brussels townhouse built by Jules Brunfaut, this time in Art Nouveau style, at Rue de la Jonction in 1903-1904. Emile Gallé was commissioned to design the interior, completed by Louis Majorelle after Gallé’s death in November 1904. In the ABP membership lists, this address is recorded only from 1913, preceded by Brussels - Saint-Gilles, Rue Henri Wafelaers, no street number, in 1907-1912. Still a member of the ABP in 1922. The house used to be home to "L'Espace Photographique Contretype", trustees of a collection of Hannon’s negatives, from 1988 to 2014.
Locations
1874 - 1905 Bruxelles - Ixelles
1906 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles, Rue de la Jonction, 1 (private)
1906 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles, Rue de la Jonction, 1 (private)
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1891; Grenoble, 1892 (bronze medal in snapshots); Vesoul, 1892; Paris, 1894; Brussels, 1895; Paris, 1895; Berlin, 1896 (gold medal); Hamburg, 1896; Paris, 1896; Paris, 1897; Vesoul, 1897 (honourable mention for enlargements); Brussels, 1898; Hamburg, 1898; Munich, 1898 ("C. Hannon, Paris"); Berlin, 1899 ("Charles"); Brussels, 1902.
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Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
DULIERE, Cécile & DIERKEN, Françoise (Introduction). Edouard Hannon. Photos 1900. Brussels, Musée Horta, 16/6-31/7/1977.
DE KEYSER, Gilbert. "Edouard Hannon (1853-1931) : de Nijni-Novgorod à Berezniki", Focale Magazine, 1982, pp. 44-51.
DE KEYSER, Gilbert & GODEFROID, Jean-Louis. Rétrospective Edouard Hannon. Brussels, 1986, 24 pp.
DE KEYSER, Gilbert. "Edouard Hannon (1853-1931) : de Nijni-Novgorod à Berezniki", Focale Magazine, 1982, pp. 44-51.
DE KEYSER, Gilbert & GODEFROID, Jean-Louis. Rétrospective Edouard Hannon. Brussels, 1986, 24 pp.
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1874 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2076
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 21.4.2017, 26.5.2018, 27.2.2019 & 30.1.2021; SFJ revised 6.3.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 27.4.2023; MD revised 3.7.2020, 5.5.2023 & 13.11.2023; SFJ revised 26.1.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght