Eugène Van Dievoet


Major Eugène Van Dievoet, was a Belgian architect and Major of military engineering. He mainly designed Art Deco and Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Biography

Eugène Van Dievoet is the son of Ernest Jean-Louis Van Dievoet and Léonie Joséphine Françoise Most, daughter of Ferdinand Gustave Adolphe Most and Ghislaine Philippine Pauline Delsart; and the grandson of Eugène Van Dievoet and Hortense Poelaert, sister of the famous architect Joseph Poelaert. He is therefore the first cousin of the architect Henri Van Dievoet and the Art Nouveau decorator Gabriel Van Dievoet.
He married Léonie Caroline Catherine Quarez, born in Liège on May 22, 1865 and died in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, rue Vergote 30, on December 6, 1944, daughter of Philippe Guillaume Quarez and Catherine Lambertine Marie Ogis. They did not have children.

Career

Eugène Van Dievoet began his career as a military architect and trained at the Royal Military Academy.
He was Major of military engineering, engineer, professor at the Royal Military Academy and member of the Royal Society of Archeology of Brussels since 1936.
After his military activities, he became a civil architect and built many houses and apartment buildings in Art Deco style or Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
: rue Vergote 30, personal home of the architecte, Bourgeois house in eclectic style and of Beaux-Arts inspiration.

Works