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Meÿers (- Hesbain), Ferdinand
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Laren [NL], 1860 - Marcinelle, 1941
Activity
1890 * - 1892 Bruxelles, Rue de la Montagne, 44
° 30.11.1860; + 9.6.1941. Recorded in the population registry on 20.2.1886 as a lithographer, then as a photographic retoucher. Several changes of domicile. At this address, probably his first studio, from 3.11.1890 until 27.1.1892, when he declared his departure for Brussels - Saint-Gilles with his wife Lucie Hesbain (° Tournai, 7.1.1862; + Marcinelle, 2.5.1941), daughter of Lucien Hesbain (see that name). They married on 18.1.1892.
1893 - 1895 Bruxelles, Rue des Quatre-Bras, 6
Predecessor: Hesbain Lucien
1894 - 1895 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue du Trône, 35
"Retoucher" in the directory. This address housed the studio of his father-in-law, Lucien Hesbain, with whom he worked.
1896 - 1899 Bruxelles
No street indicated. Member of the "Cercle Photographique d'Ixelles".
1902 * - 1910 Charleroi, Place du Sud, 16
Predecessor: Luyckx Théodore (at n° 14)
Registered as a draughtsman and lithographer. In partnership from July 1901 with Théodore Luyckx (see that name), whose studio he acquired in February 1902. CVs in the name of "Meÿers - Hesbain" at this address. Still member of the "Cercle photographique d'Ixelles", 1903 ("F. Meyers"); corresponding member in 1906. He appears to have left for Rue de Marcinelle by 1909 even though the 1913 Monod directory still lists the studio here.
1912 - 1914 Charleroi, Rue de Marcinelle, 18
"Posing salon on the ground floor" (Gazette de Charleroi, 25.5.1912). Advertisement for "artistic and industrial photography" dated 9.1.1913.
1910 ca - 1912 ca Jumet, Avenue Vandervelde, 11<10ca> or 18<12ca>
Branch studio, co-existing first with Place du Sud and then with Rue de Marcinelle.
° 30.11.1860; + 9.6.1941. Recorded in the population registry on 20.2.1886 as a lithographer, then as a photographic retoucher. Several changes of domicile. At this address, probably his first studio, from 3.11.1890 until 27.1.1892, when he declared his departure for Brussels - Saint-Gilles with his wife Lucie Hesbain (° Tournai, 7.1.1862; + Marcinelle, 2.5.1941), daughter of Lucien Hesbain (see that name). They married on 18.1.1892.
1893 - 1895 Bruxelles, Rue des Quatre-Bras, 6
Predecessor: Hesbain Lucien
1894 - 1895 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue du Trône, 35
"Retoucher" in the directory. This address housed the studio of his father-in-law, Lucien Hesbain, with whom he worked.
1896 - 1899 Bruxelles
No street indicated. Member of the "Cercle Photographique d'Ixelles".
1902 * - 1910 Charleroi, Place du Sud, 16
Predecessor: Luyckx Théodore (at n° 14)
Registered as a draughtsman and lithographer. In partnership from July 1901 with Théodore Luyckx (see that name), whose studio he acquired in February 1902. CVs in the name of "Meÿers - Hesbain" at this address. Still member of the "Cercle photographique d'Ixelles", 1903 ("F. Meyers"); corresponding member in 1906. He appears to have left for Rue de Marcinelle by 1909 even though the 1913 Monod directory still lists the studio here.
1912 - 1914 Charleroi, Rue de Marcinelle, 18
"Posing salon on the ground floor" (Gazette de Charleroi, 25.5.1912). Advertisement for "artistic and industrial photography" dated 9.1.1913.
1910 ca - 1912 ca Jumet, Avenue Vandervelde, 11<10ca> or 18<12ca>
Branch studio, co-existing first with Place du Sud and then with Rue de Marcinelle.
Locations
1890 * - 1892 Bruxelles, Rue de la Montagne, 44
1893 - 1895 Bruxelles, Rue des Quatre-Bras, 6
1894 - 1895 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue du Trône, 35
1896 - 1899 Bruxelles
1902 * - 1910 Charleroi, Place du Sud, 16
1912 - 1914 Charleroi, Rue de Marcinelle, 18
1910 ca - 1912 ca Jumet, Avenue Vandervelde, 11<10ca> or 18<12ca>
1893 - 1895 Bruxelles, Rue des Quatre-Bras, 6
1894 - 1895 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue du Trône, 35
1896 - 1899 Bruxelles
1902 * - 1910 Charleroi, Place du Sud, 16
1912 - 1914 Charleroi, Rue de Marcinelle, 18
1910 ca - 1912 ca Jumet, Avenue Vandervelde, 11<10ca> or 18<12ca>
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1891; Charleroi, 1911.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1891 - 1895
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3063
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 19.9.2017, 2.11.2018 & 7.11.2018; SFJ revised 24.4.2020, 18.7.2020 & 26.10.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 25.10.2020; SFJ revised 8.8.2023 & 13.8.2023; SFJ revised 21.1.2024 based on information supplied by Frank Driesen; SFJ revised 8.5.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght