Dumont, Philippe
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 Belgian provinces in the 1950s.
Cathedrals of France.
Nos Cathedrales.
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This is Philippe Dumont and J. Alo Balthus' c. 1952 striking large-format pictorial map of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, illustrating their major cathedrals. Dumont and Baltus were both artist-architects with a deep interest in restoring historical buildings, especially cathedrals. Their efforts can be seen as an attempt to reinforce social stability and national identity in the wake of two destructive world wars. (more details)