Tag: Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten, Alfonse van Besten, Alphonse van Besten

In the garden with Van Besten

Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Innocence, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Innocence, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Japanesque, ca. 1913. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Japanesque, ca. 1913. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists

Picking cornflowers, ca. 1912

Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Two girls picking cornflowers, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Two girls picking cornflowers, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists

Modesty by Van Besten

Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Modesty, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Modesty, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists

Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) married to Josephine Arnz. Van Besten was a painter and took full advantage of the possibilities of the new colour process: the autochrome. One can see that many of his autochromes were taken with a “painterly eye” e.g. Musing (Mrs.Van Besten) or Symphony in white.

During the first World War (1914-1918) he was a refugee in Holland. Together with his friend A. Van Son, another Belgian autochromist and refugee, they gave countless lectures at Dutch photography societies. They were praised for their excellent autochrome work, e.g. on the 16th of April 1915 the photographic society “Meer Licht” from Nymegen (NL) paid an homage to Van Besten for his outstanding autochrome plates. See Homage to Van Besten at Nymegen.

He was member of The photographic association IRIS-Antwerp and the Association Belge de Photographie. [quoted from source]