Joseph Dumont
Illustration — Front of the Church of St Boniface, Ixelles, designed by Dumont in 1845 Joseph Dumont (1811–1859) was a Belgian Neogothic architect who primarily designed and remodelled churches and prisons.
Joseph Dumont
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- Born
- 1811 · Düsseldorf and sources differ (the article records Saint-Josse-ten-Noode).
- Died
- 1859 · Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- architect
- Fields
- architecture
- Honours
- Knight of the Order of Leopold
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Illustration — Front of the Church of St Boniface, Ixelles, designed by Dumont in 1845 Joseph Dumont (1811–1859) was a Belgian Neogothic architect who primarily designed and remodelled churches and prisons.
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Victor Jamaer is recorded as having studied under Joseph Dumont. The field of work recorded is architecture. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival architecture. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Order of Leopold.
Dumont was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, to Belgian parents. He trained as an architect and was appointed to the Commission royale des Monuments (established 1835). He worked on the restoration of medieval churches in Aarschot, Sint-Truiden, Saint-Hubert, and Nivelles, and of St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres. He designed the church of St Boniface, Ixelles, modern prison cells in Brussels, Liège, Marche, Dinant, and Leuven, and a reformatory at Ruiselede (East Flanders). He designed somewhere in the region of 30 Neogothic churches. He died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, on 29 March 1859.
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1811
Joseph Dumont born at Düsseldorf.
1859
Joseph Dumont died at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
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Düsseldorf and sources differ (the article records Saint-Josse-ten-Noode).
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