Joseph POELAERT son of Philip POELAERT and Isabelle Marie Thérèse Marie STAS was born on 21 March 1817 in Brussels, he lived in rue du Marché au Charbon no 1028. Married to TOUSSAINT Léonie Marie. Renowned architect appreciated by King Leopold Ier
At a time when the great powers were expecting the new kingdom of Belgium to disappear rapidly, Joseph Poelaert quickly endowed his homeland with architectural symbols designed to create in the minds of onlookers an impression of the antiquity, duration, power and existence of the State, by making its institutions visible in stone, as in the ancient European countries, and imprinting their mark and a feeling of admiration and respect on visitors. Ohis work includes the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Saint Catherine's Church, the Royal Church of Laeken, the Colonne du Congrès, the Théâtre de la Monnaie and, above all, the Palais de Justice. Officer of the Order of Leopold, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He died on He is buried in Laeken cemetery (Pelouse 30 & funeral gallery, site 1789-1704).
N.B.: The forgotten plans of the courthouse have recently been rediscovered thanks to the research of 6 students from the Master's course in heritage at the Université libre de Bruxelles, under the direction of architect Francis Metzenger.
Birth certificates of Joseph Philippe POELAERT
Death certificates for Joseph Philippe POELAERT
Iconographic source :Archives du palais de Bruxelles (le soir du 05/08/2019)
Sources :
Thierry Luthers, dernier domicile connus, guide des tombes des personnalités belges, tome II : Région bruxelloise et communes à facilité, Édition Luc pire, 2018, p
https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/joseph-poelaert/
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