Hendrik Geirnaert
Illustration — The church of Eksaarde, restored and expanded by Henri Geirnaert in the 1890s Hendrik Lucianus (Henri) Geirnaert (1860–1928) was a Belgian architect, educator and conservationist, particularly active in building and restoring churches.
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Hendrik Geirnaert
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- Born
- 1860 · Vinderhoute.
- Died
- 1928 · Ghent.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- architect
- Fields
- architecture
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Illustration — The church of Eksaarde, restored and expanded by Henri Geirnaert in the 1890s Hendrik Lucianus (Henri) Geirnaert (1860–1928) was a Belgian architect, educator and conservationist, particularly active in building and restoring churches.
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Hendrik Geirnaert (1860–1928) was a Belgian architect. Born in Vinderhoute, the architect died in Ghent. Hendrik Geirnaert was active in architecture.
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Henri Geirnaert was born in Vinderhoute, East Flanders, on 24 February 1860, the son of Pierre Geirnaert, cabinetmaker, and Colette Van Loo. He studied at the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture (1872–1881) and went on to teach there until his death. In conserving and restoring medieval churches, he was a close collaborator of Arthur Verhaegen. He was also a member of the city of Ghent's Commission for Monuments and Landscapes. He died in Ghent on 24 February 1928.
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• Church of St Anthony of Padua, Ghent (1898–1900)
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1860
Hendrik Geirnaert was born on 24 February 1860.
1928
Hendrik Geirnaert died on 24 February 1928.
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- 1.Anthony Demey. Een blik in het archief van de Koninklijke Commissie voor Monumenten en Landschappen: Henri Geirnaert en de kerk van Eksaarde. Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde. 27. 1988.
- 2.Jan de Maeyer, Arthur Verhaegen, 1847-1917: De rode baron (Leuven University Press, 1994), pp. 445-455.
- 3.Arthur Verhaegen. La restauration du choeur de l'église collégiale de Sainte-Gertrude à Nivelles. Revue de l'art chrétien. 40. 453-459. 1897.
- 4.Flanders Heritage Agency. Geirnaert, Hendrik (Henri). Inventaris onroerend erfgoed. 30 April 2019.
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