Liège International Exposition (1905)

1905 Liège
1905 Liège
	Official Poster of the Fair
Overview
BIE-class	Universal exposition
Category	Historical Expo
Name	Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège
Building(s)	Palais des beaux-arts de Liège
Area	21.08 hectares (52.1 acres)
Visitors	7,000,000
Participant(s)
Countries	29
Location
Country	Belgium
City	Liège
Venue	Parc de la Boverie
Coordinates	50°37′43.98″N 5°34′32.56″E / 50.6288833°N 5.5757111°E
Timeline
Opening	25 April 1905
Closure	6 November 1905
Universal expositions
Previous	Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis
Next	Milan International (1906) in Milan

The Liège International Exposition (French: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège) was a world's fair held in Liège, Belgium, from 27 April to 6 November 1905^[1]^[2]^: 416 just 8 years after a Belgian exposition held in Brussels. Intended to show Liège's industrial importance it also marked 75 years of Belgian Independence^[1] and 40 years of Leopold II's reign.^[2]^: 178

The exposition received 7 million visitors, covered 52 acres and made 75,117 Belgian francs.^[2]^: 415

Participants and exhibits

Twenty-nine countries were official participants, from Europe: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; from Africa: Egypt and Congo Free State; from America: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, and the United States; and from Asia China, Japan, Persia and Turkey. Germany and Spain were unofficial participants^[1]

There was an exhibition of medieval and Renaissance art, L'art ancien au Pays de Liège, as part of the event.^[3] Ulrikke Greve' Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseums Vævskole contributed tapestries which won a gold prize.^[4]

Legacy

The Palais des Beaux Arts building was left to the city, and housed the Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporaine.^[2]^: 179 After closing in 2013, in May 2016 it reopened, with a contemporary glass extension, as La Boverie.^[5]

Music

A piece by Jean-Théodore Radoux entitled Cantate pour l'inauguration de l'Exposition universelle de Liège, 1905, with words by Jules Sauvenière, was written for the expo.

External links

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "LIEGE 1905". Retrieved 18 December 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d John E. Findling; Kimberley D. Pelle (eds.). "Liege 1905". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.
^ Françoise Dumont, Marlène Britta, Christine Renardy, "Les arts à l'Exposition de 1905", in Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905 edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005), pp. 199-200.
^ "Ulrikke Greve – Norsk biografisk leksikon" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ Michel Gretry (4 May 2017). "La Boverie fête son premier anniversaire sur un succès de foule". RTBF. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

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[bieliege-1] "LIEGE 1905". Retrieved 18 December 2011.

[Pelle-2] John E. Findling; Kimberley D. Pelle (eds.). "Liege 1905". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.

[3] Françoise Dumont, Marlène Britta, Christine Renardy, "Les arts à l'Exposition de 1905", in Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905 edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005), pp. 199-200.

[Greve-4] "Ulrikke Greve – Norsk biografisk leksikon" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 9 November 2020.

[5] Michel Gretry (4 May 2017). "La Boverie fête son premier anniversaire sur un succès de foule". RTBF. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

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