Alexis Paccard

Alexis Paccard (born June 12, 1813 in Paris , † August 18, 1867 in Aix-les-Bains ) was a French architect .

Life

Grave of Alexis Paccard in the Pere Lachaise cemetery

Paccard began studying architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1830 with Lebas and Huyot . In 1835 he was awarded the second prize for his design Une école de médecine and in 1841 received the Prix ​​de Rome of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

His work of the third and final year of the scholarship on the Parthenon of Athens , which was later exhibited and awarded at the Paris World Exhibition in 1855 , achieved fame . It is the first work by a Rome Prize winner that was dedicated to one of the main monuments on the Athens Acropolis, while the guidelines had previously excluded research stays outside Italy.

On his return to France he became a state inspector for public works. Under the direction of Louis Visconti , he worked at the Louvre and the Tuileries . In 1854 he worked as an architect at Rambouillet Castle and later at Fontainebleau Castle . From 1857 to 1859 he built the imperial chapel in the Palais Fesch in Ajaccio .

In 1863 he was appointed professor of architecture at the Ècole des Beaux Arts. One of his students was Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas .

Fonts

• Léon de Laborde and A. Paccard: Le Parthénon. Documents pour servir à une restauration (Paris 1848). Digitized, Heidelberg University Library
• Mémoire explicatif de la Restauration du Parthénon by Alexis Paccard, architecte-pensionnaire de l'Académie de France à Rome, 1845 . Ècole des Beaux-Arts, manuscript 241. Printed in: Marie-Christine Hellmann - Phillippe Fraisse (ed.): Paris - Rome - Athènes. Le voyage en Grèce des architectes français aux XIXe et XXe siècles (Paris 1982) pp. 351–368.

literature

• Marie-Christine Hellmann, Philippe Fraisse (eds.): Paris - Rome - Athènes. Le voyage en Grèce des architectes français aux XIXe et XXe siècles . (Exhibition catalog). Paris 1982, ISBN 2-903639-07-8 .