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Léon-Pierre Suys (, ; 14 June 1823 – 5 May 1887) was a Belgian architect.
Suys's father
Léon Suys et ses deux sœurs, par Navez
1823 births 1887 deaths Flemish architects Burials at Laeken Cemetery 19th-century Belgian architects {{Belgium-bio-stub
Léon-Pierre Suys (, ; 14 June 1823 – 5 May 1887) was a Belgian architect.
Suys's father Tilman-François Suys
Tilman-François Suys (in French) or Tieleman Frans Suys (in Dutch) (1 July 1783 – 22 July 1864) was a Belgian architect who also worked in the Netherlands.
Biography
Suys completed his architectural education in Paris, where he studied un ...
was the architect of King Leopold I, and the cofounder of the Belgian Royal Commission of Sites and Monuments, of which his friend François-Joseph Navez
François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 in Charleroi – 12 October 1869 in Brussels) was a Belgian Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter; known for his portraits and Genre art, genre scenes.
Biography
As the son of an alderman, in a privileged f ...
was also a member. Navez often used the young Léon as a model for his paintings, including ''Jeune garçon songeur'' (1831) and ''Léon Suys et ses deux sœurs''.
Léon Suys was the author, in 1865, of the plans to cover and divert the Senne (Zenne) river in Brussels
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, a defining event in the history of the city. As part of this, he designed the modern courses of Brussels' central boulevards, and several monumental public buildings related to the project, including the former Brussels Stock Exchange
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building, the Great Central Halls (demolished in 1956), and the reconstruction of the Greater Sluice Gate at the south of the city. He also designed the buildings of the thermal baths in Spa, Belgium
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, built between 1862 and 1868.
Suys is buried in Laeken Cemetery.
Literature
* Anne VAN LOO, ''L'haussmannisation de Bruxelles : la construction des boulevards du centre, 1865-1880'', in: Revue de l'Art, 1994 * Herman STYNEN, ''De onvoltooid verleden tijd. Een geschiedenis van de monumenten- en landschapszorg in België 1835-1940'', Brussel, 1998External links
Léon Suys et ses deux sœurs, par Navez
1823 births 1887 deaths Flemish architects Burials at Laeken Cemetery 19th-century Belgian architects {{Belgium-bio-stub