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Frans Van Dijk

{{Short description|Belgian architect (1853–1939)}}

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| birth_name = Franciscus Henricus Van Dijk

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| birth_date={{Birth date|df=yes|1853|10|11}}

| birth_place=Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium

| death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|1939|7|7|1853|10|11}}

| death_place=Merksem, Antwerp, Belgium

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| significant_buildings= Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (with Jean-Jacques Winders)
Saint Michael and Saint Peter's Church in Antwerp

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Frans Van Dijk (11 October 1853, Berchem – 20 February 1939, Merksem) was a Belgian architect. He was an important representative of eclecticism in architecture.

He designed the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Saint Michael and Saint Peter's Church and a group of six villas in Cogels-Osylei and surroundings of Antwerp. Van Dijk also renovated the Spaengien and rebuilt the De Spieghel and Den Arend on Antwerp's Grote Markt.

Frans Van Dijk and his son Henri (also an architect) are buried in the Antwerp cemetery of Schoonselhof in Hoboken.

Biography

Franciscus Henricus Van Dijk{{cite web |title=Van Dijk, Frans |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/personen/5182 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}} was born in 1853 in Berchem, a southern district and municipality of Antwerp.{{cite book |editor1-last=Genootschap voor Antwerpse Geschiedenis |title=HistoriANT 2021-9 Jaarboek voor Antwerpse geschiedenis |date=2021 |publisher=Gompel&Svacina |isbn=9789463713221 |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6ZCEAAAQBAJ |access-date=26 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Frans Van Dijk |url=https://www.schoonselhof.be/schoonselhoftz/van%20dijk%20frans.html |publisher=Schoonselhof |access-date=26 January 2022}} He was an apprentice, trainee and collaborator of architect {{ill|Joseph Schadde|nl|lt=Joseph Schadde}} from 1870 to 1881. Van Dijk was a jury member for the Prix de Rome (Architecture Department) from 1893 to 1901, and professor of architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp from 1902 until 1923.

In the 1880s he designed the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp with Jean-Jacques Winders.{{cite book |last1=Hendriksen |first1=Bartho |title=Capitool Antwerp |date=2013 |publisher=Unieboek|isbn=9789000322183 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRkDAAAAQBAJ |access-date=26 January 2022}} In 1890, he made the first designs for the Sugar Refinery Peten. As part of his early oeuvre, he restored the Spaengien on the Grote Markt of Antwerp between 1892 and 1893.{{cite web |title=Spaengien |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/4035 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}} In 1899 he designed the neo-Baroque Grand Hôtel Métropole on Leysstraat in Antwerp, which is an example of his mature oeuvre.{{cite web |title=Grand Hôtel Métropole |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/5445 |access-date=26 January 2022}} In 1901, Van Dijk was commissioned the ensemble De Biekens in Cogels-Osylei in Berchem by the Naamlooze Maatschappij voor het Bouwen van Burgershuizen of the Oostkwartier.{{cite web |title=Ensemble De Biekens |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/11108 |access-date=26 January 2022}} Van Dijk built several mansions in Cogels-Osylei, including Scaldis, an eclectic group of houses, and Baldwin Iron Arm, some of the most notable houses in Zurenborg.{{cite web |title=Huizengroep Scaldis |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/11088 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Suikerraffinaderij Peten |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/83740 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}} Since the 1880s, Van Dijk also completed several works in the Neoclassical style across Antwerp.{{cite web |title=Winkelhuis in neoclassicistische stijl |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/4362 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Winkelhuis in neoclassicistische stijl |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/4599|publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}} He designed the Saint Michael and Saint Peter's Church, built between 1893 and 1897 in Antwerp with a nave with columns of Vånevik granite from the Kalmar coast.{{cite book |editor1-last=Genootschap voor Antwerpse Geschiedenis |title=HistoriANT 2021-9 - Jaarboek voor Antwerpse geschiedenis |publisher=Gompel&Svacina |isbn=9789463713221 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6ZCEAAAQBAJ |access-date=26 January 2022}}

Between 1903 and 1904, he built the De Spieghel on the Grote Markt of Antwerp in neo-Gothic style.{{cite web |title=De Spieghel |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/4036 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}} The building, first mentioned in the 14th century, was completely demolished by the owner Eugène Kreglinger and rebuilt according to a design by Van Dijk and Michel De Braey. In 1906, he rebuilt the Den Arend, also in neo-Gothic style and on Antwerp's Grote Markt.{{cite web |title=Den Arend |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/403 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}} The same year he realized the eclectic ensemble De Twaalf Apostelen ("The Twelve Apostles") on Transvaalstraat in Berchem{{cite web |title=Ensemble De Twaalf Apostelen |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/11127 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}} and made a design for Villa Cleibs in Schoten.{{cite web |title=Villa Cleibs |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/216695 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}} In 1909 he was commissioned a mansion on Jan Van Rijswijcklaan by Eugeen Coveliers, which was designed in Neo-Louis XVI style.{{cite web |title=Herenhuis in neo-Lodewijk XVI-stijl |url=https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/6955 |publisher=Inventaris Vlaanderen |access-date=26 January 2022}}

Frans Van Dijk and his son Henri (also an architect) are buried in the Antwerp cemetery Schoonselhof (Hoboken), on perk 4 (South side).

Selected works

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File:Antwerpen Lange Gasthuisstraat 9-11 - 38181 - onroerenderfgoed.jpg|Banque de Commerce in Antwerp

File:Antwerpen Van Putlei 33 - 103563 - onroerenderfgoed.jpg|Eclectic mansion on Van Putlei in Antwerp

File:Antwerpen Leysstraat 27 - 38178 - onroerenderfgoed.jpg|Grand Hôtel Métropole on Leysstraat in Antwerp

File:Antwerpen Sint-Michiel en Sint-Petruskerk18.JPG|Interior of Saint Michael and Saint Peter's Church in Antwerp

File:Zurenborg Scaldis1.JPG|House group Scaldis in Zurenborg

File:4036-huis de spieghel.jpg|De Spieghel and Den Arend on Grote Markt in Antwerp

File:Zurenborg In de Twaalf Apostelen8.JPG|Ensemble De Twaalf Apostelen in Berchem

File:Antwerpen Museum Inside.jpg|Interior of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp

References

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Further reading

  • Frans Van Dijk, Architect te Antwerpen, Jos Huybrechs, 1994, Pelckmans

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Category:1853 births

Category:1939 deaths

Category:19th-century Belgian architects

Category:20th-century Belgian architects

Category:Architects from Antwerp