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Hersleven, Jacques
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur later Professional
Details
Life dates
Rotterdam [NL], 1880 - Brussels - Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, 1967
Activity
1903 - 1906 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles
° 18.2.1880; + 18.8.1967. Committee member of the "Cercle photographique d'Ixelles" ("Herslever"), 1903-1906. No longer a member in 1908. Portrait of Léopold II. Jacques Hersleven founded a photographic advertising agency after the First World War. In 1952 he retired to Grimbergen and approached the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels to purchase his negatives, which it then did. The archives are composed of 12 585 negatives dating from 1902 to 1951; photojournalism of the interwar period is the strong point, including official activities of the royal family and the growing field of aviation.
° 18.2.1880; + 18.8.1967. Committee member of the "Cercle photographique d'Ixelles" ("Herslever"), 1903-1906. No longer a member in 1908. Portrait of Léopold II. Jacques Hersleven founded a photographic advertising agency after the First World War. In 1952 he retired to Grimbergen and approached the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels to purchase his negatives, which it then did. The archives are composed of 12 585 negatives dating from 1902 to 1951; photojournalism of the interwar period is the strong point, including official activities of the royal family and the growing field of aviation.
Locations
1903 - 1906 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Antwerp (CEPSA), 1903; Ixelles, 1903; Malines, 1903; Ixelles, 1913.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
BALaT - Hersleven, Jacques: http://balat.kikirpa.be/people.php?priref=14748
Context
Affiliations
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2179
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Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 7.2.2018; MCC revised 22.5.2018, 25.1.2019 & 12.3.2020; SFJ revised 18.11.2020, 2.4.2023 & 7.5.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 25.3.2021