Bouleaux | Birches
A pleasing landscape study of two white birch trees on the side of a lake. The photograph was taken in the Campine region of Belgium and the Netherlands based on an alternate title. (see: Published)
The Campine is a natural region situated chiefly in north-eastern Belgium and parts of the south-eastern Netherlands which once consisted mainly of extensive moors, tracts of sandy heath, and wetlands. It encompasses a large northern and eastern portion of Antwerp Province and adjacent parts of Limburg in Belgium, as well as portions of the Dutch province of North Brabant (area southwest of Eindhoven) and Dutch Limburg around Weert. -Wikipedia (2024)
Romain Ickx: 1860-1953
The following historical chronology of the photographer appears courtesy of the Directory of Belgian Photographers hosted online by Fotomuseum Antwerp. (FOMU)
Life dates
Activity
° 21.10.1860; + 11.5.1953. At first clerk, later director in Courtrai of a bank belonging to the “Société Générale”. Pioneering pictorialist, specialist of foggy, marshy, and snow-covered landscapes; seascapes; views of Campine. Member of the “Société Photographique de Courtrai”. Secretary of the Courtrai section of the ABP in 1897; president 1913-1916. Gave a demonstration with autochromes to his fellow members of the ABP in April 1909. Moved to Brussels in 1915. Active to a lesser extent into the 1920s. Commissioner of the Brussels section of the ABP, 1922-1926. Ickx moved to Lubbeek in the Hageland (Brabant) in 1926 and abandoned photography.
