Alphonse-Jules Wauters Explained

Alphonse-Jules Wauters (1845–1916) was a Belgian art historian, geographer, and magazine editor.^[1]

Life

Wauters was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 13 June 1845. In 1887 he became a professor of Art History at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and in 1894 a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.^[2]

His passion, however, was geography. He became Secretary of the Brussels Geographical Society, and founded and edited two geographical journals, Le Mouvement Géographique (1884–1922) and the shorter-lived Le Congo illustré (1891–1895), which supported projects for colonisation in Central Africa.^[3] Wauters died in Ixelles, Belgium, on 25 March 1916.

Works

• La peinture flamande (Paris, 1883)
  • English edition as The Flemish School of Painting, tr. H. Rossel (London, 1885)
  • Dutch edition as De Vlaamsche Schilderkunst, tr. J. Sabbe (Ghent, 1887)
• Carte de l'état indépendant du Congo, dressée d'après les derniers renseignements (Brussels, 1887)
• Liste chronologique des doyens des corps de métiers de Bruxelles de 1696 à 1795 (Brussels, 1888)
• Croquis de la region entre la Côte de Guinée et Timbouctou (Brussels, 1888)
• Le Congo : dix ans d'exploration (Brussels, 1888)
• Stanley au secours d'Émin-Pacha (Paris, 1890)
  • published in English as Stanley's Emin Pasha Expedition (London, 1890)
• with A. Buyl, Bibliographie du Congo, 1880-1895 (Brussels, 1895)
• Carte du Bas Congo donnant le tracé du chemin de fer de Matadi au Stanley Pool (Brussels, 1896)
• Denis van Alsloot, peintre des archiducs Albert et Isabelle (Brussels, 1899)
• L'état indépendant du Congo (Brussels, 1899)
• Le Musée de Bruxelles. Tableaux anciens. Notice, guide & catalogue (Brussels, 1900)
• Album de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art belge : 80 reproductions hors texte d'oeuvres exposées à Bruxelles en 1905 avec catalogue et notices biographiques (Brussels, 1906)
• Histoire politique du Congo belge (Brussels, 1911)

External links

• • Alphonse-Jules Wauters, Royal Museum for Central Africa

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alphonse-Jules Wauters (1845-1916) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. data.bnf.fr. 11 October 2016.
2. R. Cambier, Wauters (Alphonse Jules), Biographie Coloniale Belge, vol. 2 (1951), 969-972.
3. Elise Henry, "Le Mouvement Géographique, entre géographie et propagande coloniale", Belgeo: Revue Belge de Géographie 1 (2008), pp. 27-46.