Printed: 2024-04-29
Rotographie Belge, S.A.
Identity
Category
Firm
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Connected
Details
Life dates
Activity
1907 - 1913 Bruxelles, Avenue du Midi, 72
Papers, emulsions, plates, picture postcards, industrial photography. "Publication of picture postcards and all artistic and industrial work relating to collotype and photography" [Mertens, 1909]. Exclusive distributor for the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (N.P.G.) of Berlin - Steglitz [D] and the Société Industrielle de Photographie (S.I.P.) of Rueil [F]. Exclusive Belgian agent for plates by Westendorp & Wehner A.G. of Cologne [D]. Maurice Génin (see that name) managed the firm until 1910. He was most likely succeeded by a man named Richard Schwarz (° Königsberg [Prussia], 1.1.1889), who was recorded as a photographer coming from London and arrived at this address in July 1910.
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles, Rue Berckmans, 89
Manufacturer and publisher of picture postcards. Agency for N.P.G. Already at this address in October 1913 and listed here until 1921. Thereafter and for the rest of the interwar period, listed in Brussels - Saint-Gilles, Chaussée de Waterloo, 294 as "Rotographie Belge, Jean César, wholesaler".
Papers, emulsions, plates, picture postcards, industrial photography. "Publication of picture postcards and all artistic and industrial work relating to collotype and photography" [Mertens, 1909]. Exclusive distributor for the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (N.P.G.) of Berlin - Steglitz [D] and the Société Industrielle de Photographie (S.I.P.) of Rueil [F]. Exclusive Belgian agent for plates by Westendorp & Wehner A.G. of Cologne [D]. Maurice Génin (see that name) managed the firm until 1910. He was most likely succeeded by a man named Richard Schwarz (° Königsberg [Prussia], 1.1.1889), who was recorded as a photographer coming from London and arrived at this address in July 1910.
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles, Rue Berckmans, 89
Manufacturer and publisher of picture postcards. Agency for N.P.G. Already at this address in October 1913 and listed here until 1921. Thereafter and for the rest of the interwar period, listed in Brussels - Saint-Gilles, Chaussée de Waterloo, 294 as "Rotographie Belge, Jean César, wholesaler".
Locations
1907 - 1913 Bruxelles, Avenue du Midi, 72
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles, Rue Berckmans, 89
1913 - 1914 > Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles, Rue Berckmans, 89
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#0513
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 17.1.2018; SFJ revised 22.1.2018, 23.2.2018 & 11.8.2021; MD revised 20.5.2022; SFJ revised 15.12.2023 based on information supplied by Pool Andries