Gabriel van Dievoet

Gabriel van Dievoet is a decorator and sgraffitist Art nouveau Belgian of great talent, he is the brother of the architect Henri van Dievoet.

It was born in Brussels on April 12th, 1875, quay with the Firewood, 37, wire of Leon van Dievoet, ship-owner and commission agent maritime shipper, and of Hermine Straatman. He was the small son of Eugene van Dievoet and Hortense Poelaert (sister of the famous architect Joseph Poelaert). He died in Saint-Gilles (Brussels) on November 17th, 1934.

After a formation with the royal Academy of the Art schools of Brussels where he was school-fellow of Paul Cauchie, he opened his workshop of decoration and started to collaborate with many architects Art nouveau or late eclecticism like, Victor Boelens, De Kock, Georges Delcoigne, Edouard She, Guillaume Low, Georges Peereboom, Edouard Pelseneer, Albert Roosenboom, Fernand Symons, Joseph Van Neck, Armand Van Waesberghe, or his brother Henri van Dievoet.

He settled initially street Faider, then with 91, rue Souveraine with Ixelles.

Its style is characterized mainly by the use of stylized floral elements.

He is the author of many Sgraffite S with Brussels and his surroundings and in Wallonia, for example those of the gilded Maison with Charleroi.

Of him also the Sgraffite S decorating the elementary School of Drogenbos (1902), the communal House of Dilbeek (1903), the college Saint-Alexis with Geel (1900), the churches of Erps-Kwerps (1898) and of Machelen (1908) or with the Park of Genval, villa “the Sorbs” (decoration of sorbs, architect and owner Fernand Symons, 1904) or with Hillock, in 1904, the Escoyez property by the Sonneville architect of Turned.

He is also the author of paintings and watercolours. The royal Library of Belgium, Albertine, Cabinet of the Prints, preserves of him an engraving entitled “Head of Lion”, dimensioned F 41265.

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