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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 * - 1908 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"). He appears to have left for Rue de Marcinelle by 1909 even though the 1913 Monod directory still lists the studio here.
1909 ca - 1913 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.
1909 ca Jumet, Avenue Vandervelde, 18
Branch studio, co-existing 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 * - 1908 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"). He appears to have left for Rue de Marcinelle by 1909 even though the 1913 Monod directory still lists the studio here.
1909 ca - 1913 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.
1909 ca Jumet, Avenue Vandervelde, 18
Branch studio, co-existing 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 * - 1908 Charleroi, Place du Sud, 16
1909 ca - 1913 Charleroi, Rue de Marcinelle, 18
1909 ca Jumet, Avenue Vandervelde, 18
1893 - 1895 Bruxelles, Rue des Quatre-Bras, 6
1894 - 1895 Bruxelles - Ixelles, Rue du Trône, 35
1896 - 1899 Bruxelles
1902 * - 1908 Charleroi, Place du Sud, 16
1909 ca - 1913 Charleroi, Rue de Marcinelle, 18
1909 ca Jumet, Avenue Vandervelde, 18
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
Identity of institution
FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
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