Printed: 2021-04-20
Ortmans, Clément
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Verviers, 1881 - Verviers, 1964
Activity
1897 * - 1899 / Verviers, Pont des Récollets, 124
° 19.3.1881; + 7.11.1964. Bought his first camera in 1897. Initially installed in his parents’ home at this address.
1900 Verviers, Place Verte, 2
"Ortmans G." in the directory at this address.
1900 - 1920 > Verviers, Rue de l'Harmonie, 28<00-08> then 30<09ca-13>
He established himself at this address with one of his sisters. Member of the "Photo-Club de Verviers". Ortmans went on to enjoy a long career as a photographer, and later, by 1908, as a wholesaler of photographic equipment. On CV dated 1903, "Speciality: enlargements in platinum and carbon". By 1908 he also stocked gramophones and dictation machines. Operated throughout the interwar period, dropping the portrait studio in favour of wholesale supplies. Still advertising at no. 26 in 1931.
1906 - 1914 Blankenberghe, Rue des Boulangers, 42
Summer branch studio.
1908 ca - 1920 > Anvers, Place de Meir, 97<08ca> or 111<11-20>
Coexisted with Rue de l'Harmonie, 30 and Blankenberge. Initial "J." in some directories.
1911 - 1913 Wenduyne
Branch studio, undoubtedly operating only during the summer tourist season.
° 19.3.1881; + 7.11.1964. Bought his first camera in 1897. Initially installed in his parents’ home at this address.
1900 Verviers, Place Verte, 2
"Ortmans G." in the directory at this address.
1900 - 1920 > Verviers, Rue de l'Harmonie, 28<00-08> then 30<09ca-13>
He established himself at this address with one of his sisters. Member of the "Photo-Club de Verviers". Ortmans went on to enjoy a long career as a photographer, and later, by 1908, as a wholesaler of photographic equipment. On CV dated 1903, "Speciality: enlargements in platinum and carbon". By 1908 he also stocked gramophones and dictation machines. Operated throughout the interwar period, dropping the portrait studio in favour of wholesale supplies. Still advertising at no. 26 in 1931.
1906 - 1914 Blankenberghe, Rue des Boulangers, 42
Summer branch studio.
1908 ca - 1920 > Anvers, Place de Meir, 97<08ca> or 111<11-20>
Coexisted with Rue de l'Harmonie, 30 and Blankenberge. Initial "J." in some directories.
1911 - 1913 Wenduyne
Branch studio, undoubtedly operating only during the summer tourist season.
Locations
1897 * - 1899 / Verviers, Pont des Récollets, 124
1900 Verviers, Place Verte, 2
1900 - 1920 > Verviers, Rue de l'Harmonie, 28<00-08> then 30<09ca-13>
1906 - 1914 Blankenberghe, Rue des Boulangers, 42
1908 ca - 1920 > Anvers, Place de Meir, 97<08ca> or 111<11-20>
1911 - 1913 Wenduyne
1900 Verviers, Place Verte, 2
1900 - 1920 > Verviers, Rue de l'Harmonie, 28<00-08> then 30<09ca-13>
1906 - 1914 Blankenberghe, Rue des Boulangers, 42
1908 ca - 1920 > Anvers, Place de Meir, 97<08ca> or 111<11-20>
1911 - 1913 Wenduyne
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1905 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3235
Identity of institution
FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 25.9.2017, 30.12.2017 & 18.11.2018; MD revised 27.10.2020 & 2.11.2020