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.

Locations

1895 - 1910 Floreffe

Exhibitions

Courtrai, 1897; Brussels, 1898; Ghent, 1899; Mons, 1901.

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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

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