Émile Vaudremer

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Émile Vaudremer, 1902

Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer (born February 6, 1829 in Paris , †  February 7, 1914 in Antibes ) was a French architect of historicism .

Life

Saint-Pierre de Montrouge church in Paris; built to designs by Vaudremer

Vaudremer studied architecture from 1847 at the École des Beaux-Arts and then worked for the architects Guillaume Abel Blouet (1795–1853) and Émile Jacques Gilbert (1795–1874). In 1854 he was awarded the Prix ​​de Rome and stayed on a scholarship from 1855 to 1858 at the Villa Medici in Rome. The American architect Louis Sullivan was one of his students .

Émile Vaudremer died in Antibes in 1914, the day after he had turned 85. It rests on the Cimetière Saint-Véran in Avignon ; he designed the tomb himself.

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His first important building was the La Santé prison in Paris, which was built from 1861 to 1867 . After this rather sober building, Vaudremer turned - in keeping with the zeitgeist - to a neo-Romanesque architectural style. The first example of this is the St-Pierre de Montrouge church in the 14th arrondissement of Paris , which was built between 1865 and 1870 . The Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil church in the 16th arrondissement was also built in neo-Romanesque style from 1876 . Vaudremer also worked with Paul Abadie in the construction of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur . Vaudremer left an extensive work of drawings. These include drafts for interior designs for the Piccolomini library in the Cathedral of Siena and St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, as well as landscape views of Capri and Viterbo .

honors and awards

literature

  • Alice Thomine: Emile Vaudremer, 1829–1914, la rigueur de l'architecure publique . Picard, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7084-0630-2 .

Web links

Commons : Émile Vaudremer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b J. AE Vaudremer † . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . No. 15 , February 21, 1914, p. 160 .
personal data
SURNAME Vaudremer, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaudremer, Joseph Auguste Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1914
Place of death Antibes