Féodor Hoffbauer

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Féodor Joseph Hubert Hoffbauer , also Fédor Joseph Hubert Hoffbauer and Théodore (Theodor) Josef Hubert Hoffbauer (born October 13, 1839 in Neuss , Rhine Province ; † October 28, 1922 in Paris ), was a Franco-German architectural painter , illustrator , architect and Building historian . He was best known for his pictorial reconstruction of historical Paris cityscapes .

Life

Hoffbauer's plan to compare historical urban structures on the Bastille : 1390/1878 (left) and 1765/1878 (right)
Hoffbauer's attempt to reconstruct a view of the Bastille in 1420 (1885)

Hoffbauer, offspring of a family from Alsace , was born in Neuss am Rhein . In 1851 he came to Paris. In 1860 he emigrated there. In 1873, after the Franco-Prussian War , he became a French citizen. He married Marie Clemence Belloc, who gave birth to Charles Hoffbauer (1875–1957), who later also became a painter. In 1876 Hoffbauer worked as an engraver in Paris, from 1877 as an architect, in 1881 in Meudon , and again in Paris in 1896.

Hoffbauer showed great interest in building research and Parisian urban history . From 1874 to 1889 he was a member of the Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France , from 1886 to 1900 a member of the Société des amis des monuments parisiens , from 1888 to 1896 in its committee. From 1898 to 1922 he was a member of the Société historique du VIe arrondissement de Paris , which he helped found . From 1913 until his death he was a member of the Commission du Vieux Paris , which inspired by the Paris City Council Alfred Lamouroux and 1897 by the prefect de Justin Selves had been established to Monuments historiques and archeology to recognize significant archaeological finds and secure.

In 1889 he became known for dioramas that were shown under the title Diorama de Paris à travers les âges in the Marigny theater on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées . He had developed these views from different phases of the history of the city of Paris since 1875 and published them in various editions under the title Paris à travers les âges . In addition to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , Hoffbauer made a significant contribution through his work to creating awareness of the architectural heritage of Paris.

Examples from his work

Illustrations on the history of the Cimetière des Innocents

  • 1550: Saints-Innocents cemetery

  • 1850: Saints-Innocents market square in Paris

Illustrations on the history of the Hôtel de Ville (Paris)

literature

  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Gmünd, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3010-9 , Volume 7, p. 105
  • Thieme-Becker , Volume XVII (1924), p. 246
  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Study edition in six volumes, EASeemann Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-363-00730-2 , Volume II (1955), p. 463
  • Maria Deurbergue: Feodor Hoffbauer (1839–1922), metteur en scène du Paris ancien . In: Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France , Issue 139, pp. 153–161, Paris 2012
  • Hoffbauer, Theodor Josef Hubert . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 36 : Supplement: Globe – Kövess . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1924, Sp. 429-430 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Paris à travers les âges  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Source: Landesarchiv NRW , emigrants from the Rhineland, BR 0007 541 143; see. Joseph Hubert Hoffbauer , website in the gedbas.genealogy.net portal , accessed on June 20, 2016
  2. ^ Jean-Claude Golvin : L'image de restitution et la restitution de l'image . In: Cours de Tunis , ICOMOS, Tunis 2005, Volume 1, p. 10 f., Unicaen.fr (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Hoffbauer, Féodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffbauer, Féodor Joseph Hubert (full name); Hoffbauer, Fédor Joseph Hubert; Hoffbauer, Théodore Josef Hubert; Hoffbauer, Theodor Josef Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French architectural painter, illustrator, architect and building historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1922
Place of death Paris