Etienne-Hippolyte Godde

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Étienne-Hippolyte Godde (born December 26, 1781 in Breteuil , † December 7, 1869 in Paris ) was a French architect of classicism and from 1813 to 1830 city architect of Paris.

family

Étienne-Hippolyte Godde was the son of the building contractor Alexandre Godde, who worked in Amiens from 1796 to 1819 and whose family had been based in Breteuil, in the Oise department , since the 17th century . Étienne-Hippolyte Godde's eldest son also became an architect. His daughter married the architect Lucien-Tirté Van Cleemputte.

career

In 1796 Etienne-Hippolyte Godde joined the Académie spéciale d'Architecture of the Académie des Beaux-Arts , the successor to the Académie royale d'architecture, which was closed in 1793 . His teachers were Claude-Mathieu Delagardette , who had written a treatise on the ruins of Paestum , and Jacques-Guillaume Legrand .

In 1802 Godde won first prize in the competition for the Grand Prix d'architecture and was employed by Jacques-Guillaume Legrand, who was the building inspector in what was then the Seine department . Under Jacques Molinos, the then city architect of Paris, Godde received the nomination for draftsman for the city of Paris. In 1805 he received his first contract to build the Saint-Nicolas church in Boves in the Somme department . This church, built in the style of classicism , became the model of his later church buildings.

In 1813 Etienne-Hippolyte Godde succeeded Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart as chief inspector of the department for cemeteries and church buildings in Paris. In 1823 he was accepted as a member of the Commission des Arts. Numerous churches in Paris were restored and in some cases expanded under his leadership. With the help of Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, he had renovations carried out on the old Parisian town hall, which was destroyed by fire during the Paris Commune . In addition to 30 church buildings, Etienne-Hippolyte Godde created over twenty city palaces, including for the banker Jonas Hagermann in the streets Rue de Londres and Rue d'Athènes in the Quartier de l'Europe in the 8th and 9th arrondissement in Paris.

When restoring churches, Etienne-Hippolyte Godde met with increasing criticism. Above all, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc accused him of a lack of knowledge of Gothic architecture and too strong a classicist character. Its construction method was pejoratively referred to as the style goddique , a classicistic remodeling of the Gothic.

Etienne-Hippolyte Godde's students include Charles-François Canda, Michel-Ange-Adolphe Mangot, François-Léon Liberge, Émile-Antoine Gencourt and Henri Labrouste . The Paris churches of Notre-Dame-de-Bercy, Ste-Marie des Batignolles , Notre-Dame-de-Lorette (by the architect Louis-Hippolyte Lebas ) and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (by Jakob Ignaz Hittorff ) stand in the Successions of Godde's Buildings.

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Buildings (selection)

Restorations and extensions

literature

  • Werner Szambien: L'église de ND-de-Bonne-Nouvelle . In: Le Sentier. Bonne Nouvelle . Collection Paris et son Patrimoine, published by Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-913246-01-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Godde, Etienne-Hippolyte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Godde, Etienne Hippolyte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Breteuil (Oise)
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1869
Place of death Paris