Leon Suys

Leon-Pierre Suys is a Belgian architect born in 1823 and died in 1887 in Brussels.

His/her father Tilman-François Suys is the architect of the king Léopold Ier and the founder of the royal Commission of the Monuments and the Sites whose is also member his friend the painter François-Joseph Navez. This one takes the Leon young person for model several time, inter alia its romantic table Jeune thoughtful boy (1831) or for Leon Suys and its two sisters .

Leon Suys is the originator, in 1865, of the project which will be adopted and carried out between 1868 and 1871, of Voûtement of the Seine and the layout of the boulevards of the center of Brussels. He is the architect of several important public buildings related to this building site, the Bourse, the Grandes central markets (destroyed in 1956) or the rebuilding of the Grande lock .

One owes him the construction of the establishment of baths of the thermal baths of Spa, built between 1862 and 1868.

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Leon Suys and his two sisters, by Navez

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