Printed: 2024-04-26
Janssens, Gérard
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Photographie Artistique et Industrielle
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Liège, 1863 - Liège, 1925
Activity
1892 - 1914 Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 46<92-00> then 222<01-14>
Gérard Jean, ° 31.7.1863; + 3.7.1925. "Former operator at the best studios in Liège, Ghent and Maastricht". Recorded as a photographer domiciled in Liège, Rue Légia at the occasion of his marriage in Liège on 21.4.1891. Subsequently a witness at the wedding of André Huisman's daughter in Liège on 30.8.1894 when he was recorded as a photographer domiciled in Liège. "Group photographs a speciality" [Directory Desoer, 1898]. Secretary of the "Association des Photographes et Marchands de Produits Photographiques", 1904. Studio not listed in some directories in 1911-1913 and may no longer have been in operation.
1909 - 1925 + Liège, Boulevard de la Sauvenière, 113
Address not recorded in the ABP membership lists before World War I. When his wife Hélène Visser (° Liège, 24.1.1864; + Liège, 27.11.1910) died at this address in 1910, an obituary notice credited her with helping her husband build his photographic business.
Gérard Jean, ° 31.7.1863; + 3.7.1925. "Former operator at the best studios in Liège, Ghent and Maastricht". Recorded as a photographer domiciled in Liège, Rue Légia at the occasion of his marriage in Liège on 21.4.1891. Subsequently a witness at the wedding of André Huisman's daughter in Liège on 30.8.1894 when he was recorded as a photographer domiciled in Liège. "Group photographs a speciality" [Directory Desoer, 1898]. Secretary of the "Association des Photographes et Marchands de Produits Photographiques", 1904. Studio not listed in some directories in 1911-1913 and may no longer have been in operation.
1909 - 1925 + Liège, Boulevard de la Sauvenière, 113
Address not recorded in the ABP membership lists before World War I. When his wife Hélène Visser (° Liège, 24.1.1864; + Liège, 27.11.1910) died at this address in 1910, an obituary notice credited her with helping her husband build his photographic business.
Locations
1892 - 1914 Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 46<92-00> then 222<01-14>
1909 - 1925 + Liège, Boulevard de la Sauvenière, 113
1909 - 1925 + Liège, Boulevard de la Sauvenière, 113
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1902 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2335
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 22.4.2017 & 4.8.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 13.5.2020, 18.6.2020 & 16.10.2020; SFJ revised 1.8.2023