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Motus, Léon (Abbé)
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Temploux, 1863 - Floreffe, 1943
Activity
1895 - 1910 Floreffe
° 21.9.1863; + 17.1.1943. Professor at the lesser seminary. "L'album du pittoresque Floreffe", edited in 1895, reportedly contained 15 photographs by Motus in collotype. His photographs of the floods in Floreffe on 14.5.1906 were published as postcards with the credit "Cliché de l'Abbé L. M." One of his photographs was published in the periodical "Petites Nouvelles Photographiques" in December 1910.
° 21.9.1863; + 17.1.1943. Professor at the lesser seminary. "L'album du pittoresque Floreffe", edited in 1895, reportedly contained 15 photographs by Motus in collotype. His photographs of the floods in Floreffe on 14.5.1906 were published as postcards with the credit "Cliché de l'Abbé L. M." One of his photographs was published in the periodical "Petites Nouvelles Photographiques" in December 1910.
Locations
1895 - 1910 Floreffe
Exhibitions
Courtrai, 1897; Brussels, 1898; Ghent, 1899; Mons, 1901.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
ALLARD, Jean-Marie, "Gens de Temploux : le chanoine Léon Motus" in Temploux infos, 273, octobre 2010, p. 4-5 (online at : http://www.temploux.be/infos/Info273z.pdf, consulted January 27, 2019).
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1896 - 1905
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3161
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 2.5.2018; MCC revised 27.1.2019 & 30.11.2019; SFJ revised 25.4.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 27.2.2024 & 22.5.2024