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Werder, Oswald
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Photo-Comptoir
- Photographie Centrale
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
La Louvière, 1871 - ?, ?
Activity
1897 - 1906 ca La Louvière, Rue Hamoir, 6 & 12
Predecessor: Werder A. & Fils Successor: Lagrâce Camille (at no.6)
Alexandre known as Oswald, ° 7.11.1871. Recorded as a photographer domiciled in La Louvière at the occasion of his wedding in La Louvière on 29.11.1893. Patent of 18.11.1898 [O. Werder, Erquelinnes] for "an apparatus known as universal photographic intermediary". Enlarging. Copying. O. Werder was active in Jeumont [Nord, F] in the second half of the 1890s. Second prize winner in the professional category of a photography competition held in Morlanwelz - Mariemont in 1903 (Gazette de Charleroi, 10.10.1903).
1897 Bracquegnies, Rue de l'Industrie
Branch. A certain Gustave Werder was recorded as a photographer aged 23 resident in Strépy-Bracquegnies, a village in the municipality of La Louvière, in January 1911.
1897 Manage, Rue de l'Inquiétude
Branch.
1910 ca - 1914 > La Louvière, Rue de la Chaussée, 58
As a member of the "Union des Photographes Professionnels de Belgique", Werder assisted in founding the "Société des Auteurs Photographes de Belgique" in 1931. The studio was still operating in La Louvière, Rue du Théâtre, 3 in 1943.
Predecessor: Werder A. & Fils Successor: Lagrâce Camille (at no.6)
Alexandre known as Oswald, ° 7.11.1871. Recorded as a photographer domiciled in La Louvière at the occasion of his wedding in La Louvière on 29.11.1893. Patent of 18.11.1898 [O. Werder, Erquelinnes] for "an apparatus known as universal photographic intermediary". Enlarging. Copying. O. Werder was active in Jeumont [Nord, F] in the second half of the 1890s. Second prize winner in the professional category of a photography competition held in Morlanwelz - Mariemont in 1903 (Gazette de Charleroi, 10.10.1903).
1897 Bracquegnies, Rue de l'Industrie
Branch. A certain Gustave Werder was recorded as a photographer aged 23 resident in Strépy-Bracquegnies, a village in the municipality of La Louvière, in January 1911.
1897 Manage, Rue de l'Inquiétude
Branch.
1910 ca - 1914 > La Louvière, Rue de la Chaussée, 58
As a member of the "Union des Photographes Professionnels de Belgique", Werder assisted in founding the "Société des Auteurs Photographes de Belgique" in 1931. The studio was still operating in La Louvière, Rue du Théâtre, 3 in 1943.
Locations
1897 - 1906 ca La Louvière, Rue Hamoir, 6 & 12
1897 Bracquegnies, Rue de l'Industrie
1897 Manage, Rue de l'Inquiétude
1910 ca - 1914 > La Louvière, Rue de la Chaussée, 58
1897 Bracquegnies, Rue de l'Industrie
1897 Manage, Rue de l'Inquiétude
1910 ca - 1914 > La Louvière, Rue de la Chaussée, 58
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1898.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#4745
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 19.5.2018, 21.7.2018, 3.12.2018 & 18.1.2019; MD revised 22.4.2020, 22.10.2020 & 18.11.2020; SFJ revised 9.8.2023; SFJ revised 7.10.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 16.12.2023 based on information supplied by Pool Andries