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Lacomblé, Adolphe
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
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Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Brussels, 1857 - Brussels - Ixelles, 1935
Activity
1891 * - 1894 Bruxelles
° 18.9.1857; + 29.12.1935. Doctor of Law. Lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Brussels. Author of a text on copyright of photographic works. 1500 plates and prints have been preserved: family, friends, landscapes (around Brussels, la Campine, Salm-Château and the surrounding area), documentary photography (military review, Paris), demolition of the old Palace of Justice in Brussels in 1892. As a landscapist, Lacomblé may already have been active in the 1880s. He also took stereoscopic photographs on excursions.
1895 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles
Vice-president of the ABP Brussels section, 1899-1901, then president, 1905-1907. Still a member of the ABP in 1922, when living in Brussels - Ixelles.
° 18.9.1857; + 29.12.1935. Doctor of Law. Lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Brussels. Author of a text on copyright of photographic works. 1500 plates and prints have been preserved: family, friends, landscapes (around Brussels, la Campine, Salm-Château and the surrounding area), documentary photography (military review, Paris), demolition of the old Palace of Justice in Brussels in 1892. As a landscapist, Lacomblé may already have been active in the 1880s. He also took stereoscopic photographs on excursions.
1895 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles
Vice-president of the ABP Brussels section, 1899-1901, then president, 1905-1907. Still a member of the ABP in 1922, when living in Brussels - Ixelles.
Locations
1891 * - 1894 Bruxelles
1895 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles
1895 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
"Adolphe Lacomblé", Focale Magazine, no. 441, 1983, pp. 46-50.
DAVID, Michel F., DELREZ, Anne & ROSSION, Adeline. En dilettante. Histoire et petites histoires de la photographie amateur. Charleroi & Tavier, 2022, 426 + (i) pp: "L’Association belge de Photographie (ABP). L’exemple de Raphaël de Sélys Longchamps, d’Adolphe Lacomblé et de Léon Delange", pp. 151-201.
DAVID, Michel F., DELREZ, Anne & ROSSION, Adeline. En dilettante. Histoire et petites histoires de la photographie amateur. Charleroi & Tavier, 2022, 426 + (i) pp: "L’Association belge de Photographie (ABP). L’exemple de Raphaël de Sélys Longchamps, d’Adolphe Lacomblé et de Léon Delange", pp. 151-201.
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1893 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2521
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 22.4.2017 & 24.4.2018; MD revised 5.5.2023; SFJ revised 22.12.2023