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Streuvels, Stijn
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Lateur, Frank
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Heule, 1871 - Anzegem, 1969
Activity
1889 ca - 1905 / Avelghem
Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, known by his pseudonym Stijn Streuvels, ° 3.10.1871; + 15.8.1969. Flemish writer known for his rural fiction on social themes. Initially a baker. First constructed his own primitive camera, then bought his first commercial camera in about 1900.
1905 * - 1914 > Anzegem - Ingooigem
Documented rural life of the sort that informed and populated his novels. Remained an enthusiastic photographer in the interwar period, buying a Leica in 1932. Streuvels' archives and collection of glass plate negatives, previously housed in the Provinicial Library and Culture Archive, Bruges, have been entrusted to the "Letterenhuis" in Antwerp, where they are now housed.
Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, known by his pseudonym Stijn Streuvels, ° 3.10.1871; + 15.8.1969. Flemish writer known for his rural fiction on social themes. Initially a baker. First constructed his own primitive camera, then bought his first commercial camera in about 1900.
1905 * - 1914 > Anzegem - Ingooigem
Documented rural life of the sort that informed and populated his novels. Remained an enthusiastic photographer in the interwar period, buying a Leica in 1932. Streuvels' archives and collection of glass plate negatives, previously housed in the Provinicial Library and Culture Archive, Bruges, have been entrusted to the "Letterenhuis" in Antwerp, where they are now housed.
Locations
1889 ca - 1905 / Avelghem
1905 * - 1914 > Anzegem - Ingooigem
1905 * - 1914 > Anzegem - Ingooigem
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Bibliography/Webography
COPPENS, Jan, Karel van Deuren & Piet Thomas. Stijn Streuvels fotograaf. Ghent & Brussels, 1994.
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Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#1171
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 16.1.2019; SFJ revised 26.11.2022 based on information supplied by Pool Andries