Klein, Philippe

Identity

Category

Person (Male)

Alternative name or descriptor

  • Photographie Populaire (in Rue de l'Orsendael)

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  • Professional / Connected

Details

Life dates

Niederstinzel [Moselle, F], 1831 - ?, ?

Activity

1860 ca Bruxelles, Rue de l'Orsendael
° 25.9.1831. Father of Elisa Klein (see that entry). Address on the back of an ambrotype. "Corner of the Place Marché du Parc, at the beginning of Rue de Schaarbeek". Despite certain sources attributing daguerreotypes to him, none exist to our knowledge. His file in the foreigners' registry is dated 1861.
1861 * Bruxelles, Rue Treurenberg, 29 (private)
An itinerant at this period, he operated in fairgrounds. He arrived from Antwerp on 10.4.1861 and left for Halle in the first half of May in the company of Anne-Marie Gasman (see that name).
1865 Bruxelles, Rue Pacheco, 22
Painter and photographer. Arrived from Lille [F] on 12.3.1864, initially resident at Rue de Schaerbeek, 88 renumbered 52. Patent of 1.8.1865 for "an apparatus for enlarging photographs". Left for Brussels - Schaerbeek on 26.5.1866. He was elected to membership of the "Société Française de Photographie" ("Klein from Brussels", no forename) on 11.1.1867. He published in the "Bulletin de la Société Française de Photographie" on the subject of enlargers in 1867.
1867 * - 1869 / Bruxelles, Rue du Cirque, 30
Arrived from Brussels - Schaerbeek on 2.10.1867, described as a camera-maker. On the occasion of his wedding in Brussels on 12.6.1869, Klein gave his occupation as engineer. Moved to Rue des Chapeliers, 26 on 17.6.1869. He published in the "Bulletin de la Société Française de Photographie" on the subject of washing paper in 1871. He opted for French nationality in 1872. Left Brussels without informing the municipal authorities and was removed from the population register on 10.11.1873. A certain Philippe Klein operated in Saintes [Charente Maritime, F] from the mid-1870s with the alternative studio name "Photographie Alsacienne". Klein predeceased his daughter's wedding in Brussels - Laeken on 11.5.1907.

Locations

1860 ca Bruxelles, Rue de l'Orsendael
1861 * Bruxelles, Rue Treurenberg, 29 (private)
1865 Bruxelles, Rue Pacheco, 22
1867 * - 1869 / Bruxelles, Rue du Cirque, 30

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DIRECTORY_1997#2463

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SFJ revised 23.4.2018 & 3.12.2018; MCC/SFJ revised 11.12.2018 & 2.1.2019; MD revised 6.4.2020; SFJ revised 9.5.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght

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