Eugène Van Dievoet Explained

Honorific Prefix:Major
Eugène Van Dievoet II
Honorific Suffix:Off. O. Crown, K. O. Leopold, Military Cross
Birth Date:9 May 1862
Birth Place:Brussels
Alma Mater: Royal Military Academy
Occupation:Architect, military engineer, professor
Parents:Ernest Jean-Louis Van Dievoet and Léonie Joséphine Françoise Most
Family:Van Dievoet family
Honours:Knight 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

Major Eugène Van Dievoet II[1] (9 May 186220 March 1937), was a Belgian architect and Major of military engineering. He mainly designed Art Deco and Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

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 22 May 1865 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, rue Vergote 30, on 6 December 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Not to be confused with his grandfather Eugène Van Dievoet husband of Hortense Poelaert.
  2. Web site: Artistes, de père en fils. 2008-11-21. Site-LeVif-FR. 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.