Activity
1894 – 1908 Bruxelles – Ixelles
° 16.11.1871; + 20.1.1937. Pictorialist. Member of the “Cercle Photographique d’Ixelles”. Member of the “Photoclub de Louvain” with an address in Louvain recorded in the membership list. Member of the “Cercle d’Art Photographique l’Effort”. Member of the “Club d’amateurs photographes de Belgique”. Extremely clubbable, he designed photographic menus for the “Cercle des X”, a private club, and photographed their numerous excursions in the 1890s. First prizewinner in two consecutive competitions for landscape photography organised by the “Touring Club de Belgique” in 1902 and 1903. Subsequently won second price in that competition in 1904.
1909 – 1914 > Bruxelles – Etterbeek
Won first prize in an internal autochrome competition organized by the Brussels section of the ABP near the end of 1911; his winning ensemble was inspired by Edmond Rostand’s poem “Les Nénuphars”. Supplied images published in the form of picture postcards by the “Ligue des Amis de la Forêt de Soignes” in 1912. Adelot remained active in the 1920s and early 1930s. Listed as a member of the “Cercle d’Art Photographique” in 1922.
Exhibitions
Ixelles, 1895; Ixelles, 1896; Ixelles, 1898; Ixelles, 1899 (views of Switzerland); Ixelles, 1900; Brussels, 1901; Effort, 1901; Brussels, 1902; Effort, 1902; Paris, 1902; Ixelles, 1902; Antwerp (CEPSA), 1903; Budapest, 1903; Effort, 1903; Hamburg, 1903; Ixelles, 1903; Malines, 1903; Marseille, 1903; Paris, 1903; Saint Petersburg, 1903; Brussels, 1904; Effort, 1904; Paris, 1904; The Hague, 1904; Berlin, 1905; Brussels, 1905; Effort, 1905; Genoa, 1905; Ixelles, 1905; Liège, 1905; Vienna, 1905; Ixelles, 1906; Marseille, 1906; Paris, 1906; Ixelles, 1907; Brussels, 1907; Brussels, 1908; Brussels, 1911; Ixelles, 1911; Ghent, 1913; Liège, 1914.