Formation
After a formation at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels where he was school-fellow of Paul Cauchie, he opened his workshop of decoration and started to collaborate with many architects Art nouveau or late eclecticism like, Victor Boelens, De Kock, Georges Delcoigne, Edouard Elle, Guillaume Low, Georges Peereboom, Edouard Pelseneer, Albert Roosenboom, Fernand Symons, Joseph Van Neck, Armand Van Waesberghe, or his brother Henri Van Dievoet.
He settled initially rue Faider, then at the 91, rue Souveraine at Ixelles, Brussels.
Its style is characterized mainly by the use of stylized floral elements.
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