Alphonse balat biography
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Alphonse Balat
Belgian architect
Alphonse Hubert François Balat (French pronunciation:[alfɔ̃sybɛʁfʁɑ̃swabala]; 15 May 1818 – 16 September 1895) was a Belgianarchitect.
Life
Balat was born in Gochenée. He studied at the Academie of Namur and obtained his degree in architecture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp in 1838. In 1839, he stayed in Paris for a year but returned after his father's death. He was soon discovered by the Walloonnobility for which he built or renovated a number of châteaus (amongst others Jehay-Bodegnée Castle and Presles Castle). Stylistically, these constructions often contained Renaissance elements with a neoclassical stress. In his interior designs, he also used elements from the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles.
In 1846, Balat settled in Brussels. He was introduced to the Belgian royal family after he was noticed for his design of a temporary festive decoration for the Salle de la Madeleine (Magdalenamarkt) where the royal family had been present (1848). In 1851 and 1856, he created several temporary festive decora
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| VICTOR HORTA | ||||
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| Name | Victor Pierre Horta | |||
| Born | January 6, 1861 | |||
| Died | September 8, 1947 | |||
| Nationality | Belgium | |||
| School | ART NOUVEAU | |||
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Victor Horta was the leading European architect of the movement to create a modern architecture in the 1890s. His work blended structural rationalism influenced by the writings of E.E. Viollet-le-Duc with personal, curvilinear decoration derived from abstracted botanic forms as proposed by V.-M.-C. Ruprich-Robert to produce works of astounding internal spatial complexity and organic completeness. Horta’s buildings were comp Copyright ©cafebee.pages.dev 2025 | ||||