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Brussels International Exposition (1935)

World's fair held in Brussels, Belgium

Field	Value
class	Universal
category	1
image	EXPO Bruxelles 1935-B.jpg
image_width	300px
caption	The Palais des Expositions (or Grand Palais) during the 1935 Brussels World's Fair
year	1935
name	Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles
building	Palais des Expositions
area	150 ha
visitors	20,000,000
organized	Joseph van Neck
cnt	24
country	Belgium
city	Brussels
venue	Heysel/Heizel Plateau
coord
open
close
prevexpo	Century of Progress
prevcity	Chicago
nextexpo	Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne
nextcity	Paris
suppl	Specialized Expositions
nextsuppl	ILIS 1936
nextsupcity	Stockholm

The Brussels International Exposition (; ) of 1935 was a world's fair held between 27 April and 6 November 1935 on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium.

History

The 1935 World's Fair was the tenth world's fair hosted by Belgium, and the fourth in Brussels, following the fairs in 1888, 1897 and 1910. Officially sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), twenty-five countries officially participated and a further five were unofficially represented. The theme was colonisation, on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Congo Free State.

The exhibition attracted some twenty million visitors. The Belgian architect Joseph van Neck was the principal architect of the fair and of the Art Deco Palais des Expositions (also known as the Grand Palais), with its interior concrete parabolic arches, and four heroic bronze statues on piers.

Among many other contributors, Le Corbusier designed part of the French exhibit; the Belgian modernist architect Victor Bourgeois designed the Palais des Expositions (or Grand Palais), the Leopold II restaurant and the Soprocol pavilion. The Belgian art exposition prominently displayed the work of contemporary Belgian artists, including Paul Delvaux, René Magritte and Louis Van Lint, boosting their careers.

The exhibition was photographed in colour by the Dutch photographer Bernard F. Eilers, which was a novelty in 1935.

The Palais des Expositions, and at least three other of the 1935 structures, were re-used for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58), which was held on the same site in 1958. Currently, it is home to the Brussels Exhibition Centre (Brussels Expo), the city's most important event complex in Belgium and the largest exhibition space in the Benelux.

Gallery

File:EXPO Bruxelles 1935-A.jpg|The main entrance File:EXPO Bruxelles 1935-C.jpg|General view File:EXPO Bruxelles 1935-D.jpg|View towards the Palais des Expositions File:EXPO Bruxelles 1935-F.jpg|The Catholic life pavilion

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Bibliography

References

"1935 Brussels".
Bernard F. Eilers photographs The Memory of the Netherlands 2012 https://geheugen.delpher.nl/en
"Bruxelles Laeken - Palais des Expositions du Heysel - Place de Belgique - BAES Louis".

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