Eugène Van Dievoet

Major Eugène Van Dievoet[1] (/ˈdiːvʊt/, 9 May 1862–20 March 1937), was a Belgian architect and Major of military engineering. He mainly designed Art Deco and Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Major

Eugène Van Dievoet II

Off. O. Crown, K. O. Leopold, Military Cross
Born9 May 1862
Brussels
Died20 March 1937
Citizenship Belgium
Alma mater Royal Military Academy
OccupationArchitect, military engineer, professor
Parent(s)Ernest Jean-Louis Van Dievoet and Léonie Joséphine Françoise Most
FamilyVan Dievoet family
HonoursKnight of the Order of Léopold (Military Division)
Officer of the Order of the Crown
Military Cross (First Class)
Commemorative Medal of the reign of HM Léopold II

Biography

Eugène Van Dievoet is the son of Ernest Jean-Louis Van Dievoet (Brussels, 16 July 1835 - Saint-Gilles, 28 August 1903) and Léonie Joséphine Françoise Most (Antwerp, 14 July 1838 - Brussels 1943), daughter of Ferdinand Gustave Adolphe Most and Ghislaine Philippine Pauline Delsart; and the grandson of Eugène Van Dievoet and Hortense Poelaert, sister of the famous architect Joseph Poelaert.[2] He is therefore the first cousin of the architect Henri Van Dievoet and the Art Nouveau decorator Gabriel Van Dievoet.

He married Léonie Caroline Catherine Quarez, born in Liège on May 22, 1865 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, rue Vergote 30, on December 6, 1944, daughter of Philippe Guillaume Quarez and Catherine Lambertine Marie Ogis. They did not have children.

Career

Eugène Van Dievoet began his career as a military architect and trained at the Royal Military Academy (48th class, engineering, 1880-1885).

He was Major of military engineering, engineer, professor at the Royal Military Academy and member of the Royal Society of Archeology of Brussels since 1936.[3]

After his military activities, he became a civil architect (living in rue Vergote 30) and built many houses and apartment buildings in Art Deco style or Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Woluwe-Saint-Lambert : rue Vergote 30 (previously n° 14 in Schaerbeek),[4] personal home of the architecte, Bourgeois house in eclectic style and of Beaux-Arts inspiration.


Works
  • 1922 : Schaerbeek : House of Monsieur Louis Brison, stockbroker, boulevard Reyers, 120, Bourgeois house in bricks and stone, Louis XV eclectic style.
  • 1923 : Brussels, rue des Fabriques, n° 32, Bourgeois house in Beaux-Arts style.
  • 1923 : Brussels, rue des Fabriques n° 32A to 36A, 5-story appartient building in Art Deco style.
  • 1923 : Woluwe-Saint-Lambert : rue Vergote 30 (previously n° 14 in Schaerbeek),[5] personal home of the architecte, Bourgeois house in eclectic style and of Beaux-Arts inspiration.

Honours

Bibliography
  • 1935: Histoire de l'École militaire, 1834-1934, Brussels, printer Marcel Hayez, 1935, p. 361.
  • 1936: Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, 2 March 1936.
  • 1993: Le patrimoine monumental de la Belgique, Brussels, Pentagone E-M, Brussels, Pierre Mardaga, editor, 1993, volume 1B, p. 41.
  • 2003: Anne Van Loo (dir.), Dictionnaire de l'Architecture en Belgique de 1830 à nos jours, Antwerp, Fonds Mercator, 2003, p. 561.

References
  1. Not to be confused with his grandfather Eugène Van Dievoet husband of Hortense Poelaert.
  2. "Artistes, de père en fils". Site-LeVif-FR. 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  3. Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, 2 March 1936, New member, Eugène Van Dievoet, engineer, 14, rue Vergote. (n° 14 since became n° 30).
  4. Archives Communales de Schaerbeek/Urbanisme 273-14.
  5. Archives Communales de Schaerbeek/Urbanisme 273-14.
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