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Pirot (- Schwartz), Hubert
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Dinant, 1867 - Durnal (Namur), 1928
Activity
1898 Dinant, Montagne de la Croix, 13
Hubert Joseph, ° 22.8.1867; + 20.11.1928. A certain H. Pirot was already active around 1890 (CV with ink stamp, but no place given). During this period, Hubert Pirot was a weaver in Reims [F]. Address noted on his ABP file card on joining in July 1898.
1898 - 1900 Bouillon, Rue du Brutz<98>
Address recorded in "Bulletin de l'ABP" on joining in July 1898. Not an ABP member, 1900-1908.
1900 - 1901 Bertrix
1903 - 1906 Marche-en-Famenne
Location on CVs can be misread as "Marcae. Luxembourg". Published an album "Le Luxembourg forestier en photographie" (1903) containing 30 prints, 35 frs. Auto-testimonial on CV back, "The work leaving our studio has been awarded a silver medal and diploma by the government and honoured with orders by the ministries of agriculture and foreign affairs, the bookshops [sic] of the academies of science of Saint Petersburg, London, Paris and St Louis (USA). In 1897 our studio was honoured with an order from the court of Russia." Picture postcards postmarked 1905. Married Salomé Schwartz (° Westhoffen [Bas-Alsace, D], 1875) in Marche on 4.8.1906.
1909 - 1914 > Dinant, Rue Grande, 133<09-10> or 135<11-14>
Advertising at this address in June 1909. On invoice letterhead at no. 133 dated January 1913, "Silver medal and diploma. Hors concours Namur 1901". Photographs of the flooding in 1910. Documented Dinant in ruins soon after its bombardment in August 1914. Despite his own studio being destroyed, Pirot erected a temporary structure on the site that enabled him to operate throughout the occupation. Pirot’s photographs constitute a significant contribution to the visual record of the impact of World War I on the Belgian home front. Moved to Rue du Palais de Justice, 10 around 1920 and retired to the village of Durnal in 1926.
Hubert Joseph, ° 22.8.1867; + 20.11.1928. A certain H. Pirot was already active around 1890 (CV with ink stamp, but no place given). During this period, Hubert Pirot was a weaver in Reims [F]. Address noted on his ABP file card on joining in July 1898.
1898 - 1900 Bouillon, Rue du Brutz<98>
Address recorded in "Bulletin de l'ABP" on joining in July 1898. Not an ABP member, 1900-1908.
1900 - 1901 Bertrix
1903 - 1906 Marche-en-Famenne
Location on CVs can be misread as "Marcae. Luxembourg". Published an album "Le Luxembourg forestier en photographie" (1903) containing 30 prints, 35 frs. Auto-testimonial on CV back, "The work leaving our studio has been awarded a silver medal and diploma by the government and honoured with orders by the ministries of agriculture and foreign affairs, the bookshops [sic] of the academies of science of Saint Petersburg, London, Paris and St Louis (USA). In 1897 our studio was honoured with an order from the court of Russia." Picture postcards postmarked 1905. Married Salomé Schwartz (° Westhoffen [Bas-Alsace, D], 1875) in Marche on 4.8.1906.
1909 - 1914 > Dinant, Rue Grande, 133<09-10> or 135<11-14>
Advertising at this address in June 1909. On invoice letterhead at no. 133 dated January 1913, "Silver medal and diploma. Hors concours Namur 1901". Photographs of the flooding in 1910. Documented Dinant in ruins soon after its bombardment in August 1914. Despite his own studio being destroyed, Pirot erected a temporary structure on the site that enabled him to operate throughout the occupation. Pirot’s photographs constitute a significant contribution to the visual record of the impact of World War I on the Belgian home front. Moved to Rue du Palais de Justice, 10 around 1920 and retired to the village of Durnal in 1926.
Locations
1898 Dinant, Montagne de la Croix, 13
1898 - 1900 Bouillon, Rue du Brutz<98>
1900 - 1901 Bertrix
1903 - 1906 Marche-en-Famenne
1909 - 1914 > Dinant, Rue Grande, 133<09-10> or 135<11-14>
1898 - 1900 Bouillon, Rue du Brutz<98>
1900 - 1901 Bertrix
1903 - 1906 Marche-en-Famenne
1909 - 1914 > Dinant, Rue Grande, 133<09-10> or 135<11-14>
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
DEFRANCE, Olivier. "Hubert Pirot, le photographe de guerre des Dinantais" in Dinant, tu renaîtras ! Dinant, asbl Espère en Mieulx, 2018.
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1898 - 1911
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3442
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 12.9.2017 & 31.8.2018; MCC revised 13.12.2018; SFJ revised 28.4.2020 partly based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 4.11.2020; SFJ revised 11.5.2021 based on information supplied by Olivier Defrance; SFJ revised 3.4.2024 based on information supplied by Jean-Pol Weber