Henri Van Dievoet
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Henri van Dievoet, 1908
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19 January 1869 Brussels |
| Died | 24 April 1931 (aged 62) |
| Occupation | Architect |
Henri van Dievoet (19 January 1869, Brussels – 24 April 1931) was a Belgian architect.
Van Dievoet belonged to an old family of Brussels descended from the Sweerts family, one of the Seven noble houses of Brussels, which had already shone in the fine arts of the time of Louis XIV. His great-great-uncles were the goldsmith Philippe van Dievoet and the sculptor Peter van Dievoet, one of the creators of the Grand Place of Brussels. Joseph Poelaert was his great-uncle.
He married Eugenie Ernestine Clémence Hortense Masson in Ixelles on 2 October 1894. She was born in Ixelles on 9 July 1872, daughter of Captain Stanislas Jean Ernest Masson, knight of the Ordre of Léopold, and Marie Eugenie Louise Clémence Mounoury. His first construction project (1889) was the house and workshop of the artist Félix Rodberg, 30 rue Washington, in Ixelles.
In 1890 he participated in the Salon d' Architecture de l'Exposition des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles alongside Victor Horta and of Maurice Van Ysendijck.
In 1894 he won the Grand Prix of architecture of the Town of Brussels for his project "House of Parliament for a constitutional country".
In 1901, he conceived a series of buildings with apartments on Campenhout Street in Brussels. Other works include a house and studio for artist Felix Rodberg in Washington Straat (1889); the Evangelical Church in Haine Saint Paul Jolimont (1890); four houses on the rue General Patton (1895); the Royal Military Academy on the Avenue de la Renaissance, with fellow architect Henri Maquet (1908); and the Hotel Astoria, Rue Royale (1909).
Among his disciples appears Joseph Van Neck, who worked as draftsman in his workshop.
He was for many years the secretary of the Central Société of Architecture of Brussels.
Starting in 1910, he was professor with the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
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