Digital Image: 1952 Dumont / Baltus Pictorial Map of French, Belgian, and Luxembourgish Cathedrals
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Title
Nos Cathedrales.
1952 (undated) 39.25 x 34.5 in (99.695 x 87.63 cm) 1 : 1250000
1952 (undated) 39.25 x 34.5 in (99.695 x 87.63 cm) 1 : 1250000
Description
FOR THE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP, WITH HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, CLICK HERE.
Digital Map Information
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Cartographer S
Jean Ado Baltus (May 25, 1918 - September 17, 1990) was a Belgian architect, draughtsman, designer, and painter. His father, Georges Balthus (1874 - 1967), was also a painter who had studied and taught art in France, Italy, and Scotland, while his mother, Bertha, was the daughter of German sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand (1847 - 1921). The younger Balthus studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, completing his studies in 1943. In his younger years, he focused on sketches of trains, military vehicles, and automobiles, and later in his career shifted focus to landscapes, especially of the Italian countryside. His interest in technical subjects also served him well as an architect and restorer of historical buildings, including the Galerie Ravenstein and Palais d’Egmont. He served as the Head Architect for the 1958 Expo (World's Fair) in Brussels and was the director of the Academy of Visual Arts in Etterbeek. More by this mapmaker...
Philippe Dumont (November 29, 1914 - February 3, 1988) was a Belgian artist, architect, and architectural restorer. His father François Dumont was a painter and his uncle Alexis Dumont was an architect, with whom he would go into business in the 1950s and 1960s (the two may belong to the same family as Joseph Jonas Dumont, 1818 - 1859, a Belgian architect who primarily restored cathedrals). Aside from his uncle, Philippe Dumont collaborated on several projects with painter-architect Jean Ado Baltus, including the Galerie Ravenstein and a series of pictorial maps of Luxembourg and different provinces of Belgium in the 1950s. Learn More...
References
OCLC 1277172454, 1082910180 (1965 edition).