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Title: Jean Berckmans architectural drawings
Date (inclusive): 1930-1939
Number: 940023
Creator/Collector:
Berckmans, Jean
Physical Description:
114.0 drawing(s)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Colored renderings and sepia prints by the Belgian architect, made when he was a student. Included are studies for the St.
Gertrude cloister, the church of St. Denis, and the Chateau de Grant-Bigard, as well as houses, sports club, schools, a bus
terminal, stockmarket, and furniture.
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Language: Collection material is in French and Dutch.
Jean Berckmans was a Belgian architect whose work, beyond his student drawings, is little known.
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Jean Berckmans Architectural drawings, 1930-1939, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 940023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa940023
Acquired in 1994.
Processed by J. Gibbs.
Scope and Content of Collection
Jean Berckmans is little known, beyond the drawings in this collection, which were made while he was a student, probably at
the Ecole Saint Luc in Schaarbeek, Belgium.
Drawings are colored renderings and sepia prints and include studies of churches, hospital, houses, sports buildings, a stockmarket
(bourse), a working man's club, and furniture. Some drawings are undated.
Arranged chronologically in one series.
Berckmans, Jean
Architect-designed furniture--Belgium
Architecture--Belgium
Architecture--Designs and plans
Architecture--Study and teaching
Concrete construction--United States
Architectural drawings--20th century--Belgium