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Willems, Frans
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur / Connected
Details
Life dates
Antwerp, 1877 - Edegem, 1945
Activity
1901 - 1907 Anvers
Franciscus Georgius Joannes Antonius Ernestus, ° 4.6.1877; + 13.1.1945. First name sometimes spelled "Franz". After failed law studies became a clerk. Husband of writer Marie Gevers (° Edegem, 30.12.1883; + Edegem, 9.3.1975) and brother-in-law of Auguste Demblon (see that name). Shareholder, together with Demblon, in the photographic supply house of "Edmond Bastyns & Cie", founded on 1.3.1902. Marie Gevers inherited a fortune when her father, a sugar baron, died in 1907. Following their wedding in 1908, the couple moved to Missenburg (or Mussenborg) castle in Edegem. At which point Willems seems to have abandoned his commercial and photographic interests in favour of fine-art painting.
Franciscus Georgius Joannes Antonius Ernestus, ° 4.6.1877; + 13.1.1945. First name sometimes spelled "Franz". After failed law studies became a clerk. Husband of writer Marie Gevers (° Edegem, 30.12.1883; + Edegem, 9.3.1975) and brother-in-law of Auguste Demblon (see that name). Shareholder, together with Demblon, in the photographic supply house of "Edmond Bastyns & Cie", founded on 1.3.1902. Marie Gevers inherited a fortune when her father, a sugar baron, died in 1907. Following their wedding in 1908, the couple moved to Missenburg (or Mussenborg) castle in Edegem. At which point Willems seems to have abandoned his commercial and photographic interests in favour of fine-art painting.
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1901 - 1907 Anvers
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Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1901 - 1907
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#4779
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 6.8.2017; SFJ revised 10.5.2020 & 22.1.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 18.2.2021 based on information supplied by Pool Andries; MD revised 25.11.2020 & 26.3.2024