Van Cortenbergh, Constant (Fils)

Identity

Category

Person (Male)

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Status

  • Connected

Details

Life dates

Overijse, 1870 - Menton [Alpes-Maritimes, F], 1950

Activity

1901 - 1910 Bruxelles, Rue des Longs Chariots, 9
Constant Joseph Célestin, ° 18.7.1870; + 29.1.1950. Collotype printer. Son of Célestin Van Cortenbergh (see that name). Moved to this address on 2.6.1894, practising lithography and chromolithography; there is no evidence of collotype printing before the turn of the century. Published postcards of the Congo in hand-coloured collotype and other postcards in chromolithography. Alphonse Mucha designed a calendar for him for the year 1902. Honorary member of the "Club d'amateurs photographes de Belgique" (no forename). Still recorded at this address in the 1911 Monod directory.
1904 - 1911 Lille [F], Rue des Stations, 99<06-11>
Cortenbergh Ltd. in 1911. The firm also had a branch in London [GB] in May 1906.
1910 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Rue de l'Empereur, 12
Printing for publishers: postcards and engravings. The firm was still active at this address in the 1940s, offering "offset, typography, heliogravure in intaglio".
1914 Bruxelles, Rue Joseph II, 102
Postcard printing and heliogravure. "& Cie" at this address.

Locations

1901 - 1910 Bruxelles, Rue des Longs Chariots, 9
1904 - 1911 Lille [F], Rue des Stations, 99<06-11>
1910 - 1914 > Bruxelles, Rue de l'Empereur, 12
1914 Bruxelles, Rue Joseph II, 102

Exhibitions

Saint Louis, 1904.

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Affiliations

Affiliated entity

Association belge de Photographie

Type of affiliation

Member of

Dates of affiliation

1903 - 1905

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Record source

DIRECTORY_1997#4241

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Dates of creation/revision

SFJ revised 16.7.2018 & 4.8.2020; SFJ revised 5.5.2020, 23.12.2020 & 16.3.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 22.6.2020, 7.8.2020, 28.10.2020 & 5.11.2021; SFJ revised 3.8.2024

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