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List Of Luxembourgers
This is a list of people from Luxembourg. Politics * Jean of Luxembourg (1921–2019), former Grand Duke *Henri of Luxembourg (born 1955), current Grand Duke * Victor Bodson (1902–1984), justice minister, Righteous Among the Nations * Jean-Claude Juncker (born 1954), Luxembourg prime minister, EC president * Jacques Santer (born 1937), Luxembourg prime minister, EC president * Martine Schommer (born 1961), diplomat *Robert Schuman (1886–1963), French prime minister, EU co-founder * Gaston Thorn (1928–2007), Luxembourg politician, EC president * Pierre Werner (1913–2002), Luxembourg prime minister, EEC figure Arts and culture * Pol Albrecht (1874–1975), composer * Louis Beicht (1886–1943), composer *Charles Bernhoeft (1859–1933), photographer *Emile Boeres (1890–1944), composer * Pierre Brandebourg (1824–1878), painter and photographer *Josy Braun (1938–2012), writer * Elisabeth Calmes (born 1947), painter *Sandrine Cantoreggi (born 1969), violinist * Soph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Of Luxembourg
Jean (Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano; 5 January 1921 – 23 April 2019) was the Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1964 until his abdication in 2000. He was the first Grand Duke of Luxembourg of French agnatic descent. Jean was the eldest son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix. Jean's primary education was initially in Luxembourg, before attending Ampleforth College in England. In 1938, he was officially named Hereditary Grand Duke as heir-apparent to the throne of Luxembourg. While Luxembourg was occupied by Germans during the Second World War, the grand ducal family was abroad in exile. Jean studied at the Université Laval in Quebec City. Jean later volunteered to join the British army's Irish Guards in 1942, and after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, received his commission in 1943. He participated in the Normandy landings and the Battle for Caen, and joined the Allied forces in the liberation of Luxembourg. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Brandebourg
Pierre Paul Brandebourg, also Peter Brandenbourg (1824-1878) was a Luxembourg painter and photographer. He was the first to open a photographic studio in the city of Luxembourg. Early life and family Brandebourg's parents were Charles Brandebourg, a gardener, and Anne Lambert. After completing high school at Luxembourg's Athénée, he first studied art under the Luxembourg painter Jean-Baptiste Fresez before spending terms at the academies of Paris, Antwerp and Munich. Returning to Luxembourg, on 4 May 1850, he married Catherine Kranenwitter from Rollingergrund. Both his son Charles (Carl) (1851–1906) and his grandson Emile followed in his footsteps, working as photographers in Luxembourg.René Clesse, "Geschichtsschreibung mit der Kamera: Die er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Galbats
Patrick Galbats (born 1978) is a freelance Luxembourg photographer and photojournalist who has completed a number of artistically presented reportages. Biography Galbats completed his schooling at the Lycée Technique des Arts et Métiers in Luxembourg City. After studying at the ''Ecole Septante-Supérieure de l'Image: Le 75'' in Brussels, he joined the young photographers' collective ''photon.lu''. From 2002 to 2006, he worked for the Luxembourg weekly magazine ''Revue''. Since 2007, he has been a freelance photographer. In 2001, Galbats took a series of photographs at Luxembourg's Centre Pénitentiaire. In 2003, he completed an assignment on street people and drug addicts which was exhibited at the main railway station. In 2004, the National Audiovisual Centre published his work ''DOïNA'', a collection he created during three trips to Romania (2001–2003). In 2004, he presented the reportage ''Un autre regard sur Haïti'' for ''Objectif Tiers Monde'' which reveals the conditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johny Fritz
Johny Fritz (born December 14, 1944) is a Luxembourgian composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi .... References 1944 births Living people Luxembourgian composers Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Luxembourgian people {{Luxembourg-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Fresez
Jean-Baptiste Fresez (1800–1867) was Luxembourg's most important 19th-century painter. He is remembered above all for his almost photographic images of the City of Luxembourg."Frenez, Jean-Baptiste", ''Luxemburger Lexikon'', Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. Early life Born in Longwy on 10 July 1800, Fresez came to Luxembourg City with his parents in 1802 when his father started to work at the Sept-Fontaines porcelain factory in the Rollingergrund. He attended the Luxembourg Drawing School where he was awarded the first prize when he was just 14, before continuing his art studies at the Royal Academy in Brussels.Georgette Bisdorff, "Jean-Baptiste Fresez" ''Ons stad'' No 61, 1999. Retrieved 19 January 2011. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batty Fischer
Jean-Baptiste (Batty) Fischer (1877–1958) was a Luxembourg dentist and amateur photographer. He is best remembered for his collection of some 10,000 photographs that richly document the development of Luxembourg City from the end of the 19th century until the 1950s. Early life and family Batty Fischer was born on 24 July 1877 in the ''Marché aux Herbes'' opposite the Grand Ducal palace where his parents, Josef Fischer and Marguerite Marie Ferron, had a shop dealing in fashionable clothes and furs. Batty was the eldest of three children; his sister Marguerite and brother Fritz were later to take over the family business. After graduating from high school, Fischer studied dentistry at the ''Ecole Dentaire'' in Paris.René Clesse, "Geschichtsschreibung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Fabeck
Tatiana Fabeck (born 4 July 1970) is a Luxembourger architect who since 1996 has run her own business in Koerich, Luxembourg. Fabeck was born in Luxembourg. After completing her schooling at the Lycée Michel Rodange in Luxembourg, Fabeck studied architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris where she graduated in 1994."Tatiana Fabeck" , ''Fabeck.lu''. Retrieved 6 February 2012. In 2011, she won first prize in the competition ''Vivre sans voiture'' (Living without a car) aimed at designing housing without garages or parking spaces in the Limpertsberg
Limpertsberg ( lb, Lampertsbierg) is a quarter in north-western Luxembourg City, in the centre of Luxembourg.
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Michel Engels
Michel Engels (1851–1901) was a Luxembourg illustrator, painter and art teacher who is remembered principally for his sketches of the fortifications of Luxembourg City and for cofounding the ''Cercle artistique de Luxembourg''."Engels, Michel", ''Luxemburger Lexikon'', Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. Early life Born in the Rollingergrund district of Luxembourg City on 6 June 1851, Engels studied art at the Athénée where he was one of the last students instructed by Jean-Baptiste Fresez, considered to be Luxembourg's greatest 19th-century artist. Benefitting from a State grant, he then went on to study at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Career On his return to Luxembourg, Engels became an art teacher at the Athénée, gaining the status of professor in 1895. He was popular among his students who he would often take down to the Rollingergrund to practice sketching. In 1889, he published a set of 20 drawings of scenes in Luxembourg City, encouraging his students to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Decker
Simone Decker (born 1968) is a Luxembourg artist who works mainly with photography and installations. In 1999, her photographic series ''Chewing and folding in Venice'' depicting huge chewing gum sculptures in the streets of Venice, was one of Luxembourg's contributions to the 48th Venice Biennale. Her sculptural works have included the exhibit ''Ghosts'' (2004) which consisted of seven yellow figures on the roof of the Casino Luxembourg art gallery. Biography Born in Esch-sur-Alzette on 9 April 1968, Simone Decker completed her school education in Luxembourg before studying at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg from 1988. She then earned a scholarship to study for a short period at the Städelschule in Frankfurt until February 1993. After a study trip to Paris, in October 1995 she graduated in plastic art from the Université des Sciences Humaines, Strasbourg. From 1995 until 2008, under a series of scholarships, she worked in Frankfurt, New Delhi, Paris and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Clemes
Jim Clemes (born 1957) is a Luxembourg architect who founded the Esch-sur-Alzette firm ''Atelier d’Architecture et de Design Jim Clemes'' in 1984. He and his firm have designed several modern Luxembourg buildings and are also involved in town planning initiatives. Biography Born on 29 July 1957 in Luxembourg City, Clemes attended the ''Lycée des Garçons'' in Esch-sur-Alzette. He graduated in environmental design at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and in architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. Before founding his own firm in 1984, he worked for Luxembourg's ''Services des Sites et Monuments Nationaux''. Clemes' ''Atelier d'Architecture et de Design'' now employs 55 architects, engineers, technicians and support staff. Works His design work has included: *the ''Banque Générale du Luxembourg'' building, boulevard Royal, Luxembourg City; *''Centre de conférences provisoire'' (temporary conference centre) at the Foire Internationale de Luxembourg win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claus Cito
Nicolas Joseph 'Claus' Cito (26 May 1882 – 10 October 1965) was a Luxembourgian sculptor educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He is most notable for having created the original Gëlle Fra war memorial, though his work can also be found at the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg. Along with Emile Hulten and Charles Kohl, he worked on the bas-reliefs of the National Resistance Museum in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. In 1909, Cito shared the coveted Prix Grand-duc Adolphe with the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Wercollier. Cito was a cofounder of the Luxembourg secession movement in 1926 which promoted Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad .... He exhibited at the first salon in 1927. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Carle
Sophie Carle (born 7 June 1964 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgish actress and singer mostly operating in France. She has appeared in several films, and represented Luxembourg in the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest with the song " 100% d'amour". She was only the fourth native Luxembourgian to represent the country, after Camillo Felgen (1960 and 1962), Chris Baldo (1968) and Monique Melsen (1971). Filmography * ''Plus beau que moi tu meurs'' (1982) * ''Souvenirs souvenirs'' (1984), as Muriel * ''À nous les garçons'' (1984), as Véronique * ''Requiem pour un fumeur'' (1985) * ''Bing'' (1986, TV) * ''L'Or noir de Lornac'' (1987, TV series), as Odette * '' Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story'' (1987, TV miniseries), as Claudine * ''Diventerò padre'' (1988, TV) * ' (1989), as Silke * ''Câlins d'abord'' (1989, TV series), as Malou * ' (1990, TV series, 1 episode), as Mlle Bondon * '' Triplex'' (1991), as Brigitte * ''Les Années campagne'' (1992), as Evelyne * ''Un commissario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
