Aubert Joseph Parent

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Aubert Henri Joseph Parent (born December 13, 1753 in Cambrai , † November 27, 1835 in Valenciennes ) was a French architect , draftsman, sculptor and carver.

Life

After training in Paris and Rome , Aubert Joseph Parent worked in Paris as an architect, draftsman, sculptor and carver of limewood reliefs, among others for the French King Louis XVI. active. 1786–1789 he created the architectural sculpture of the Hôtel de Ville in Orbe VD together with Antoine-François Filiette . In 1792 he emigrated to Switzerland and traveled to Berlin and St. Petersburg . From 1793–1794, 1801 and 1803 Parent lived in Basel . During this time he carried out excavations in Augusta Raurica on behalf of the patrician Johann Rudolf Forcart . He brought the Roman finds made there to Basel and used them to design the landscape garden he had designed on the Forcart estate. 1795 and 1804–1805 he worked in Neuchâtel , where he created the marble bust of David de Pury . 1805–1811 he was a cantonal master builder in Solothurn , where he also ran a drawing school in the former court of the French ambassadors. Parent wrote richly illustrated reports on Roman antiquities in Switzerland, especially by Augst. In 1813 he settled in Valenciennes and worked there as an architect and professor at the academy. From 1797 to 1831 he was an associate member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin .

Aubert Parents sons Henri Aubert Joseph Parent (1819–1895) and Clément Parent (1823–1884) both worked as architects.

literature

  • Peter Felder: Baroque sculpture of Switzerland (= contributions to the history of art in Switzerland; 6). Wiese, Basel 1988, ISBN 3-9091-5806-4 .
  • Anne Nagel: "Aux amateurs de la nature et de l'art" , in: The house to the cherry orchard and the beginnings of classicism in Basel, ed. von Burkard von Roda and Benno Schubiger, Basel 1995, pp. 169–184.
  • Charlotte Steinbrücker: Linden wood carvings by Aubert Joseph Parent (1753–1835) in the Berlin Palace Museum, in: Journal: Anzeiger für Schweizerische Altertumskunde, NF, vol. 28, 1926, issue 3.
  • Colin Streeter: Two Carved Reliefs by Aubert Parent in: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Vol. 13, 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME Parent, Aubert Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parent, Aubert Henri Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect, draftsman, sculptor and wood carver
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambrai
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1835
Place of death Valenciennes