Impression S’Ardennes
A woman using a cane and supporting a basket with unusual extension makes her way up a dirt road in the Ardennes region-perhaps in Belgium where the photographer was based.
The Ardennes, also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, extending into Germany and France. -Wikipedia (2025) continues…
Ludovic Fraeÿs: 1882-1952
The following historical chronology of the photographer appears courtesy of the Directory of Belgian Photographers hosted online by Fotomuseum Antwerp. (FOMU)
Life dates
Bruges, 1882 – Brussels – Etterbeek, 1952
Activity
1903 – 1914 > Bruges
Louis Joseph Marie Honoré Antoine Ludovic Fraeÿs de Veubeke, ° 20.6.1882; + 25.6.1952. Lawyer, president of the bar, deputy judge at the court of first instance of Bruges. Member (“Fraeijs” or “Fraeys”) of the “Cercle Photographique de Bruges”, club secretary in 1904 and then secretary of the editorial board of its monthly magazine “Vers L’Art”. Still secretary of the club in 1909. Secretary general of the “Union nationale des Sociétés belges de photographie”, 1909. Third prize winner (100 francs) at the Gevaert competition organized during the Brussels International Exposition in 1910. Presented a slide show of colour photographs at the Blankenberg casino with three fellow members on 8.8.1911. Signed his photographs “Lud. Fr.” Still listed as secretary of the “Cercle Photographique de Bruges” in 1922.
Louis Joseph Marie Honoré Antoine Ludovic Fraeÿs de Veubeke, ° 20.6.1882; + 25.6.1952. Lawyer, president of the bar, deputy judge at the court of first instance of Bruges. Member (“Fraeijs” or “Fraeys”) of the “Cercle Photographique de Bruges”, club secretary in 1904 and then secretary of the editorial board of its monthly magazine “Vers L’Art”. Still secretary of the club in 1909. Secretary general of the “Union nationale des Sociétés belges de photographie”, 1909. Third prize winner (100 francs) at the Gevaert competition organized during the Brussels International Exposition in 1910. Presented a slide show of colour photographs at the Blankenberg casino with three fellow members on 8.8.1911. Signed his photographs “Lud. Fr.” Still listed as secretary of the “Cercle Photographique de Bruges” in 1922.
Locations
1903 – 1914 > Bruges
Exhibitions
Liège, 1905; Bruges, 1905/06; Marseille, 1906; Paris, 1906 (enlargements in gum); Ghent, 1913 (“Frays de Veubeke”).
