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Delvaux
Delvaux is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Delvaux (1918–1985), Congolese politician * André Delvaux (1926–2002), Belgian film director * Anne Delvaux (born 1970), Belgian politician * Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (1915–2005), Belgian composer * Henry Delvaux de Fenffe, Belgian politician * Jean Delvaux (died 1595), Belgian Roman Catholic monk * Laurent Delvaux (1696–1778), Flemish sculptor * Paul Delvaux (1897–1994), Belgian painter Other * Delvaux (company) Delvaux is a Belgian manufacturer of fine leather luxury goods founded in 1829 by Charles Delvaux. The company is the oldest fine leather luxury goods house in the world. History In 1829, a year before Belgium declared its independence, Charles ... Belgian manufacturer of fine leather luxury goods * 1848 Delvaux, main-belt asteroid {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux (; 23 September 1897 – 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the Surrealist movement. He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, but developed his own fantastical subjects and hyper-realistic styling, combining the detailed classical beauty of academic painting with the bizarre juxtapositions of surrealism. Throughout his long career, Delvaux explored "Nude and skeleton, the clothed and the unclothed, male and female, desire and horror, eroticism and death – Delvaux's major anxieties in fact, and the greater themes of his later work ... Early life and education Delvaux was born on 23 September 1897 in Antheit (now part of Wanze) in the Belgian province of Liège. His parents lived in Brussels, but his mother went to her own mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Delvaux
André Albert Auguste Delvaux (; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Johan Daisne, Julien Gracq and Marguerite Yourcenar, he received international attention for directing magic realist films. Delvaux received the Louis Delluc Prize for ''Rendezvous at Bray'' (1971) and the André Cavens Award for ''Woman Between Wolf and Dog'' (1979) and ''The Abyss'' (1988). The king of Belgium made him a baron in 1996. The Académie André Delvaux is named after him and he posthumously received the first in 2011. Early life and education André Albert Auguste Delvaux was born in Heverlee, Belgium, on 21 March 1926. He studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and worked as a silent film pianist at the Belgian cinématheque in his early 20s. He studied law and took a degree in German philology at the Free Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delvaux (company)
Delvaux is a Belgian manufacturer of fine leather luxury goods founded in 1829 by Charles Delvaux. The company is the oldest fine leather luxury goods house in the world. History In 1829, a year before Belgium declared its independence, Charles Delvaux opened a travel goods workshop and store in Brussels, Belgium. In 1908, Delvaux filed its first patents for handbags. Delvaux is a warrant holder to the Court of Belgium. The house went into a gradual decline at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1933 an agricultural engineer with no experience in leather goods, Franz Schwennicke, took over the company from Edmond Delvaux, the last of the Delvaux family line. While keeping the manufacturing of travel goods, he progressively introduced a new concept for the time, the creation of seasonal collections, as is still done to this day. For the 1958 Brussels World Fair, Delvaux introduced the "Le Brillant" handbag, designed by Paule Goethals. The range-topping "Le Brillant", still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Delvaux
Laurent Delvaux (1696, in Ghent – 24 February 1778, in Nivelles) was a Flemish sculptor. After a successful international career that brought him to London and Rome, he returned to the Austrian Netherlands where he was a sculptor to the court. Delvaux was a transitional figure between the Baroque and Neo-classicism. Life Training Delvaux probably trained in his native Ghent under the local sculptor J. B. van Helderberghe. At the age of 18 he went to Brussels to study under Pierre-Denis Plumier from Antwerp and attended the local drawing academy.Laurent Delvaux at the London He went to London in 1717 where h ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Delvaux
Albert Delvaux Mafuta Kizola (8 May 1918 – 1985) was a Congolese politician who served as Resident Minister of the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville), Republic of the Congo in Belgium. Before Congolese independence Albert Delvaux was born on 8 May 1918 to a Belgium, Belgian father and a Yaka people, Muyaka mother. In 1959, he became the Secretary General of the weakly organised Parti National du Progrès (PNP), a party closely aligned with the Belgian colonisers. He participated in the Belgo-Congolese Round Table Conference in January-February 1960 in Brussels as a representative of this party. Every Congolese delegation had a Belgian adviser or Belgian advisers at its disposal. In the case of PNP, this included later List of foreign ministers of Belgium, Minister of Foreign Affairs Henri Simonet. After Congolese independence Delvaux occupied the position of List of ambassadors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Belgium, Resident Minister of Congo in Belgium in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Delvaux
Jean Delvaux (died 2 April 1595) was a Belgian Roman Catholic monk and an alleged practitioner of witchcraft. In 1595, a scandal occurred among the monks at an Abbey at Stavelot in the Ardennes. The monk Jean Delvaux claimed that, at the age of fifteen, he met a man in the woods who promised him riches if he would follow him. Delvaux abided and he received two marks on his shoulders. He told Delvaux to become a monk at Stavelot Stavelot (; german: Stablo ; wa, Ståvleu) is a town and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Francorchamps and Stavelot. It is best known as the home of Sp ..., and promised that he would become an abbot. Delvaux did indeed become a monk, and discovered many warlocks among the priests and monks. He said, that there were nine convents of warlocks in the Ardennes, who met during the night with demons to eat, dance and engage in sex. Delvaux was arrested on the order o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthe Di Vito-Delvaux
Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (17 May 1915 – 2 April 2005) was a Belgian composer. Biography Berthe di Vito-Delvaux was born in Angleur, Belgium. She studied theory with Désiré Duysens, harmony with Louis Lavoye and piano with Jeanne House at the Royal Academy of Music of Liège, and composition under Léon Jongen at the Brussels Royal Academy of Music. She married at eighteen, but completed her studies and then took a position teaching harmony at the Royal Academy of Music of Liège. In 1949, Berthe di Vito-Delvaux moved to Hasselt Hasselt (, , ; la, Hasseletum, Hasselatum) is a Belgian city and municipality, and capital and largest city of the province of Limburg in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is known for its former branding as "the city of taste", as well as its ..., and then in 1964 back to Angleur where she died in 2005. Awards and honors Di Vito-Delvaux received honors and awards including: *Maria Prize from the City of Liège 1938 * Prix de Rome in 1943 *Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Delvaux De Fenffe
Henry Charles Marie Adolphe Delvaux de Fenffe was a Belgian nobleman and high-ranking civil servant. Career He achieved his Doctorate of Law in 1885. He was member of the provincial council, 1985. In 1898 he was shortly member of parliament. He served as Royal High Commissioner for Eupen-Malmedy, and governor of Devastated Regions. Between 1908 and 1919 he was Governor of liege in succession of Léon Pety de Thozée. He was then Senator, from 1926 to 1936. Bibliography * "Faut-il appliquer la participation aux benefices?" Liege, 1892 * "Les travaux publics." Liege, 1908 * "Les habitations ouvrieres." Liege, 1909 * "La formation de la jeunesse. L'education physique. Discours." Liege, 1910 * "La science du plein air." Liege, 1911 * "La science d'alimentation populaire." Liege, 1912 * "La science de l'adaptabilite de la jeunesse." Liege, 1913 Honours * : ** 1919: Created 1st Baron Delvaux de Fenffe, by Royal Decree ** 1932 : knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Delvaux
Anne Delvaux (; born 20 October 1970 in Liège) is a Belgian politician and a member of the cdH. She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate The Senate ( nl, Senaat, ; french: Sénat, ; german: Senat) is one of the two chambers of the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Chamber of Representatives. It is considered to be the "upper house" of the Federal Parlia ... in 2007. Notes 1970 births Living people Centre démocrate humaniste politicians Members of the Belgian Federal Parliament Centre démocrate humaniste MEPs MEPs for Belgium 2009–2014 21st-century women MEPs for Belgium {{Wallonia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
