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Laoureux, Léon (& Cie)
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur / Connected
Details
Life dates
Liège, 1845 - Rouvreux, 1915
Activity
1870 * - 1883 Liège, Rue Bertholet, 7
Nicolas Renier Léon ° 12.5.1845; + 13.1.1915. Chemical engineer. Director of the department for chemistry and physics products and equipment at Jonniaux in 1867, he sold photographic cameras and chemicals from 1870. In 1879, Recorded as a chemist at his wedding in Liège on 24.6.1871. Laoureux invented a printing process using ferric oxalate, which was commercialised by the Jonniaux firm in 1882. Founder member of the ABP, he was also one of its instigators.
1884 - 1914 > Liège, Rue de la Cathédrale, 10<00-04>, 12<05>, 56<11-14> or 60<05-14>
Predecessor: Jonniaux Charles (Père)
Photographic supplies. At this address from 1884 but still living in Rue Bertholet in 1898. About 1890, "Henkart & Laoureux". Photographs of mills in the Amblève valley. Views of Switzerland. He organised the first public slide show held by the Liège section of the ABP on 18.4.1889. Vice-president from 1904 until 1907. He organised a photographic congress in Liège during the Universal Exhibition in 1905 and was a member of the jury for Group 12 'Photography'. Member of the "Association belge des chimistes" in 1898. At no. 56, "Léon Laoureux & Cie, successor to C.B. Jonniaux & Frères. Firm founded in 1810. Equipment for chemistry, bacteriology, physics and photography" (advertisement, 5.12.1911). Laoureux was recorded as a chemist domiciled in Liège and resident at Rouvreux on his death certificate, which was witnessed by his nephew Georges (see that name).
1907 - 1914 Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 41
Recorded in the ABP membership lists, this is possibly a private address. ABP listed previously: Quai de la Boverie, 25.
Nicolas Renier Léon ° 12.5.1845; + 13.1.1915. Chemical engineer. Director of the department for chemistry and physics products and equipment at Jonniaux in 1867, he sold photographic cameras and chemicals from 1870. In 1879, Recorded as a chemist at his wedding in Liège on 24.6.1871. Laoureux invented a printing process using ferric oxalate, which was commercialised by the Jonniaux firm in 1882. Founder member of the ABP, he was also one of its instigators.
1884 - 1914 > Liège, Rue de la Cathédrale, 10<00-04>, 12<05>, 56<11-14> or 60<05-14>
Predecessor: Jonniaux Charles (Père)
Photographic supplies. At this address from 1884 but still living in Rue Bertholet in 1898. About 1890, "Henkart & Laoureux". Photographs of mills in the Amblève valley. Views of Switzerland. He organised the first public slide show held by the Liège section of the ABP on 18.4.1889. Vice-president from 1904 until 1907. He organised a photographic congress in Liège during the Universal Exhibition in 1905 and was a member of the jury for Group 12 'Photography'. Member of the "Association belge des chimistes" in 1898. At no. 56, "Léon Laoureux & Cie, successor to C.B. Jonniaux & Frères. Firm founded in 1810. Equipment for chemistry, bacteriology, physics and photography" (advertisement, 5.12.1911). Laoureux was recorded as a chemist domiciled in Liège and resident at Rouvreux on his death certificate, which was witnessed by his nephew Georges (see that name).
1907 - 1914 Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 41
Recorded in the ABP membership lists, this is possibly a private address. ABP listed previously: Quai de la Boverie, 25.
Locations
1870 * - 1883 Liège, Rue Bertholet, 7
1884 - 1914 > Liège, Rue de la Cathédrale, 10<00-04>, 12<05>, 56<11-14> or 60<05-14>
1907 - 1914 Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 41
1884 - 1914 > Liège, Rue de la Cathédrale, 10<00-04>, 12<05>, 56<11-14> or 60<05-14>
1907 - 1914 Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 41
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1880; Brussels, 1883 (bronze medal); Liège, 1892; Antwerp, 1893 ABP; Antwerp, 1894 (silver medal); Louvain, 1896; Courtrai, 1897; Liège, 1905.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
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#2587
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 23.4.2017 & 22.9.2017; SFJ revised 18.12.2020, 24.1.2021, 27.4.2021 & 24.1.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 8.4.2021 & 5.8.2023; MD revised 20.10.2020 & 16.4.2021; SFJ revised 20.8.2023; SFJ revised 23.1.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght