Émile Boeswillwald

Émile Boeswillwald (born February 2, 1815 in Strasbourg , † March 20, 1896 in Paris ) was a French architect and monument conservator.

Life

Émile Boeswillwald completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason, which he completed in 1835. After a year of study in Munich, he began to study architecture at the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts in 1837 , which he soon gave up in order to finish his architectural training in Henri Labrouste's studio in Paris. In 1842 he received his first assignment from the Commission of the Monuments Historiques , founded in 1837 , of which he became Inspector General in 1860, succeeding Prosper Mérimée and remained until 1895. In addition, he worked since 1847 in the service of ecclesiastical monument preservation (Commission des Arts et Édifices religieux) with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc at the top. These include the restorations of the cathedrals of Luçon (1847–1850), Orléans (1852–1861), Bayonne (1856–1896), Chartres (1857–1896) and Le Mans (1857–1875).

Boeswillwald carried out the enlargement of Pontchartrain Castle in Jouars-Pontchartrain in 1888 . For many years he worked on the restoration of the Notre-Dame Abbey in Mouzon . In 1874 he renovated the Cathedral of Toul, which was damaged in the Franco-Prussian War . He also carried out the restoration of the Abbey of Saint-Germer-de-Fly , the Church of Saint-Étienne in Vignory , the Cathedral of Laon , the Abbey of La Trinité in Vendôme , the Cathedral of Bayonne , Notre-Dame in Avioth and the Sainte- Chapelle in Paris . Other works include the enlargement of the Notre-Dame-en-Assomption church in Bourbonne-les-Bains (1875), the restoration of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste basilica in Chaumont (1847-1854), the Notre-Dame church in Isômes (from 1849) and work on the Saint-Urbain church in Troyes (1846–1848).

In Alsace , Boeswillwald restored the former abbey church of Murbach (1862–1870), designed the rhombic helmet and the gable of the crossing tower of the former abbey church in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne , produced the collegiate church of Niederhaslach (1853) and restored the Nikolauskapelle in Niedermünster on Odilienberg (1847-1850).

With René Cagnat and Albert Ballu he published the work Timgad, une cité africaine sous l'Empire romain in 1895 .

family

Boeswillwald's son Paul was also an architect, his grandson Émile Artus was a painter.

literature

Rudolf Echt : Emil Boeswillwald as a monument conservator. Investigations into problems and methods of French monument preservation in the 19th century. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1984, ISBN 978-3-7749-2067-5 .

Web links

Commons : Émile Boeswillwald - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Base Mérimée (with photo)

Individual evidence

↑ Rudolf Echt: Émile Boeswillwald as a monument conservator. Investigations into problems and methods of French monument preservation in the 19th century . Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7749-2067-2 , p. 22-25 .
^ Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin, 3rd ed. 1976, pp. 167, 173, 178, 181.

personal data
SURNAME	Boeswillwald, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French architect and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg (Alsace)
DATE OF DEATH	March 20, 1896
Place of death	Paris

[1] Rudolf Echt: Émile Boeswillwald as a monument conservator. Investigations into problems and methods of French monument preservation in the 19th century . Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7749-2067-2 , p. 22-25 .

[2] Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin, 3rd ed. 1976, pp. 167, 173, 178, 181.