Auguste Félix Schoy
Belgian, 1838-1885
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Auguste Félix Schoy, born in Brussels on January 7, 1838, and died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode on November 4, 1885, was a Belgian architect, professor at the Academy of Antwerp, writer, archaeologist, and author of theoretical and historical works on his art.
He was a member of the Central Society of Architecture of Belgium and a corresponding member of the Royal Commission for Monuments and Sites.
After studying humanities at the Collège Saint-Michel in Brussels and training as an architect at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, in the studio of Tilman-François Suys, Auguste Schoy continued to hone his skills by working with Alphonse Balat and Félix Laureys (1820-1897).
Auguste Schoy was an admirer of Rubens and thus acquired the conviction, like Émile Janlet, that it was necessary to revive the “Flemish” national styles, whose richness he had discovered.
