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L'Effort, Cercle d'Art Photographique
Identity
Category
Collective
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Group
Details
Life dates
Activity
1901 * - 1906 Bruxelles, Place du Petit Sablon, 9 "Au Roy d'Espagne"
Founded on 15.6.1901. Headquarters at this address. Club founded with the aim of promoting photography as an art. Organised five annual exhibitions of Belgian and foreign pictorialist works from 1901 to 1905. Action committee: L. Sneyers (president), L. Claeys, F. Leys, V. Stouffs and L. Willems. At times L. Bovier or L. Sneyers were recorded as secretaries of the club and F. Leys the treasurer. Made a collective submission of eight members' work (Adelot, Dewit, Gaspar, Leys, Mathy, Sneyers, Stouffs, Willems) to the exhibition held in Hamburg in 1903 under the auspices of the "Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur-Photographie" and thereafter to other exhibitions held abroad.
Founded on 15.6.1901. Headquarters at this address. Club founded with the aim of promoting photography as an art. Organised five annual exhibitions of Belgian and foreign pictorialist works from 1901 to 1905. Action committee: L. Sneyers (president), L. Claeys, F. Leys, V. Stouffs and L. Willems. At times L. Bovier or L. Sneyers were recorded as secretaries of the club and F. Leys the treasurer. Made a collective submission of eight members' work (Adelot, Dewit, Gaspar, Leys, Mathy, Sneyers, Stouffs, Willems) to the exhibition held in Hamburg in 1903 under the auspices of the "Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur-Photographie" and thereafter to other exhibitions held abroad.
Locations
1901 * - 1906 Bruxelles, Place du Petit Sablon, 9 "Au Roy d'Espagne"
Exhibitions
Collective displays: Hamburg, 1903; Marseille, 1904; Milan, 1906 (diplôme de grand prix).
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Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
LEBLANC, Claire. Première approche du Cercle d'art photographique bruxellois «L’Effort» (1901-1910?). Brussels, 1995-1996, 2 parts. Part I: 3 + [vi] + 156 pp., Part II – Annexes: clxxiii pp. Dissertation at the "Université Libre de Bruxelles".
LEBLANC, Claire. «L’Effort», cercle d'art photographique belge (1901-1910). Brussels, 2001, 108 pp.
LEBLANC, Claire. «L’Effort», cercle d'art photographique belge (1901-1910). Brussels, 2001, 108 pp.
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#1568
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Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 4.5.2018 & 3.1.2019; SFJ revised 1.3.2023 & 18.6.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght