Félix Duban

Félix Duban

Jacques Félix Duban (born October 14, 1797 in Paris , † December 20, 1870 in Bordeaux ) was a French architect and since 1854 a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

Life

In 1823 he won the Prix ​​de Rome and was able to go to the Académie de France à Rome in the Villa Medici in Rome for 5 years with a grant . On his return, he was appointed to replace his brother-in-law François Debret , his sister's husband, to redesign the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . The art college was located on the site of the closed Musée des Monuments français , a former monastery of the Petits-Augustins . He incorporated the existing building fabric and, as an early supporter and pioneer of historicism, redesigned the buildings in the style of the Italian Renaissance .

In the Louvre he restored and redesigned the Apollo gallery, the Salle des Sept-Cheminées (room of the seven chimneys) and the Salon Carrée . From 1840 on, he was also in charge of the restoration and redesign of Blois Castle, which had previously been used as a barracks, and converted it into its present-day condition. He was also responsible for the restoration of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris until 1849 .

literature

• Barry Bergdoll: Félix Duban, Early Photography, Architecture, and the Circulation of Images . In: Karen Koehler (ed.): The Built Surface, Vol. 2: Architecture and the Pictorial Arts from Romanticism to the Twenty-First Century , Aldershot, Burlington 2002, pp. 12-30.
• Sylvain Bellenger; Françoise Hamon (Ed.): Félix Duban. 1798-1870; les couleurs de l'architecte . Gallimard, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-07-015028-3 .
• David van Zanten: Félix Duban and the buildings of the "Ecole des Beaux-Arts", 1832-1840 . In: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , Vol. 37 (1978), pp. 161-174, ISSN  0097-2010 .

Web links

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