Fernand Brunfaut

Fernand Brunfaut, born in Anseremme on 7 July 1886 and died in Brussels in 1972, trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and worked as an intern with, among others, Adolphe Puissant, Émile Hellemans and Victor Horta. A socialist, he was elected to the Laeken municipal council in 1911 and later became alderman for public works there; a member of parliament for the Brussels district from 1925 to 1961, he was vice-president of the Chamber until 1961. In 1922 he built a social housing block for the Foyer koekelbergeois on Rue Jean Jacquet in Koekelberg. For the socialist movement he designed in the 1920s the people's house in Dinant, the César de Paepe clinic in Brussels and the Bond Moyson clinic in Ghent; he also designed the people's house in Willebroek. From 1930 he worked with his son Maxime: together they converted the editorial offices and printing works of the daily Vooruit in Ghent in 1930, designed the printing works of the newspaper Le Peuple in Brussels in 1931, and drew up the Tombeek sanatorium (1934-1937).

Translated from the French original.