Jan-Albert De Bondt

Jan-Albert De Bondt, born in Ghent on 22 August 1888 and died in Ghent on 18 March 1969, studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (from 1906) and gained his bouwmeester diploma in 1912. Winner of the Belgian Prix de Rome in 1921, he became a professor at the Ghent Academy in 1924 and its director in 1941, and chief architect of the Ghent electricity company from 1930. He built the Handelsbank headquarters in Ghent (1925), its branches in Dendermonde (1926) and Oudenaarde (1927), and the Verbreyt villas in Sint-Niklaas (1927). His own villa, at Krijgslaan 124 in Ghent, dates from 1928.

Translated from the French original.