Adolphe Stoclet

Adolphe Stoclet (* 1871, † 1949) was a Belgian engineer and financier.

The son of a banking family, was sent by his father to Vienna to pursue, among others, to a larger railway project. In this role, Stoclet also sat on the supervisory board of the Austro -Belgian railway company that operated the Aspangbahn in Austria. Stoclet learned the occasion of this visit to Vienna architect Josef Hoffmann know and wanted to be build from this a house. By the death of his father Stoclet was forced to return to Belgium and took over the management of the Société générale de Belgique of a large conglomerate with about 40 companies (banks, weapons manufacturing, mines in the Belgian Congo etc ). Adolphe Stoclet, therefore, could be the famous Palais Stoclet in Brussels, built, designed by Gustav Klimt Stoclet Frieze in the sequence 1905-1911 of Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte. The palace is the main work of Hoffmann and is entered in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

From contemporaries described with impressive " beard à la Ashurbanipal " Adolphe Stoclet as a charming but somewhat pompous occurring personality that would fit perfectly into the overall work of art of his house. Madame Suzanne Stoclet, a subsidiary of the Belgian art historian Arthur Stevens and niece of the painter Alfred Stevens 've made the rest that even the flowers were always matched in the vases of the Palais Stoclet to the respective color of the tie of the landowner.

• Engineer
• Belgian
• Born in 1871
• Died in 1949
• Man