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Verbouwe, Alexis
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Photographie Artistique
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Alveringem, 1872 - Jette, 1968
Activity
1900 ca - 1914 > Bruxelles - Jette, Rue de la Station, 45<10ca> or 46<12-14>
Alexis Auguste, ° 17.7.1872; + February 1968. On CV, "Photographer-draughtsman. Speciality: large portraits". Recorded as a railway guard living in Brussels - Schaerbeek at his wedding in Brussels on 2.12.1896. Recorded as a photographer aged 40 living in Brussels in February 1909. Studio still active throughout the interwar period, at this same address after the street was renamed "Rue Léon Theodor" in 1920. He published postcards documenting the war-ravaged coastal districts in 1920. This led to Verbouwe's activities as a self-taught historian and collector. He made it his life's work to compile an extensive repertoire of all known topographical images of the Flemish municipalities and regions. Verbouwe published a series of regional monographs, starting with his own region, Brabant. An eight-part iconography of Flemish Brabant was published between 1938 and 1953.
Verbouwe also wrote a series of books "Iconografie der Gemeenten van West-Vlaanderen" based on his collection, covering the areas of Furnes in 1950, Ypres in 1953 and Ostend in 1956. During the research for his iconographies, Verbouwe created an extensive index card system and also collected many original items: lithographs, engravings, etchings, drawings, watercolors. The provincial government of West Flanders purchased the index cards and Verbouwe's iconographic collection in 1953 and 1960. The collection is held in the "Westflandrica" archives at the municipality of Kortrijk / Courtrai. A street is named after him in Koksijde.
Alexis Auguste, ° 17.7.1872; + February 1968. On CV, "Photographer-draughtsman. Speciality: large portraits". Recorded as a railway guard living in Brussels - Schaerbeek at his wedding in Brussels on 2.12.1896. Recorded as a photographer aged 40 living in Brussels in February 1909. Studio still active throughout the interwar period, at this same address after the street was renamed "Rue Léon Theodor" in 1920. He published postcards documenting the war-ravaged coastal districts in 1920. This led to Verbouwe's activities as a self-taught historian and collector. He made it his life's work to compile an extensive repertoire of all known topographical images of the Flemish municipalities and regions. Verbouwe published a series of regional monographs, starting with his own region, Brabant. An eight-part iconography of Flemish Brabant was published between 1938 and 1953.
Verbouwe also wrote a series of books "Iconografie der Gemeenten van West-Vlaanderen" based on his collection, covering the areas of Furnes in 1950, Ypres in 1953 and Ostend in 1956. During the research for his iconographies, Verbouwe created an extensive index card system and also collected many original items: lithographs, engravings, etchings, drawings, watercolors. The provincial government of West Flanders purchased the index cards and Verbouwe's iconographic collection in 1953 and 1960. The collection is held in the "Westflandrica" archives at the municipality of Kortrijk / Courtrai. A street is named after him in Koksijde.
Locations
1900 ca - 1914 > Bruxelles - Jette, Rue de la Station, 45<10ca> or 46<12-14>
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Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#4586
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 17.2.2018 & 27.2.2018; SFJ revised 1.6.2019 & 5.12.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 25.8.2020, 28.10.2020 & 8.2.2021; SFJ revised 16.12.2023 based on information supplied by Pool Andries