MAXIME BRUNFAUT
Maxime Brunfaut, born in Brussels (Schaerbeek) on May 23, 1909, died in Brussels on September 22, 2003.
Son of Fernand Brunfaut, and nephew of Gaston Brunfaut, Maxime grew up in architecture.
Like his father, he studied at the Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and followed the courses of Victor Horta. With a strong character, Maxime first worked alongside his father. At barely 22 years of age, he collaborated on the extension of the buildings of the newspaper Le Peuple, daily of the Belgian Workers' Party. Because, the Brunfaut lineage is actively socialist.
During the war, Maxime took refuge in France and joined the resistance.
Back in Belgium, he completed the Central Station, the final work of Victor Horta who died in 1947. He worked on the intermediate stations of the north-south junction as well as on the Sabena Air Terminus building, later on the Zaventem airport terminal and so many other remarkable achievements.
His end of life is sad, his daughter, Louise-Hélène is murdered by an unbalanced person, he leaves his wife, goes to France to escape the Belgian tax authorities, he becomes politically radicalized and leaves, alone.
