Georges-Henri Pingusson

Georges-Henri Pingusson (born July 26, 1894 in Clermont-Ferrand , † October 22, 1978 in Paris ) was a French engineer , architect and town planner .

Life

The son of an industrialist first studied engineering ( École spéciale d'Électricité, diploma July 1914) and from 1919 to 1925 architecture with Gustave Umbdenstock and Paul Tournon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1930 he became a member of the Union des Artistes Modernes . From 1949 to 1957 he was its president.

Main features of his work

Together with his fellow student Paul Furiet , he planned the Arrighi thermal power station in Vitry-sur-Seine (1926), the Ternissien residential building in Boulogne-Billancourt (1927) and various villas in Cannes and Biarritz. He built the Villa Isola Serena (1927) and the Villa Romée (1928), which was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's idea . He became known for the bold modernity of the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisiers, today's Comédie de Paris, with features of post-cubism and Dadaism. He created his masterpiece with the Hotel Latitude 43 in Saint-Tropez in the style of Mouvement Moderne , of which he is one of the most prominent representatives.

After the Second World War, he was appointed by the commander of the French military government on the Saar, Gilbert Grandval , to the team of French urbanists in the urbanisme et reconstruction section , which was headed by Marcel Roux and André Sive . He was entrusted with the reconstruction and reorganization of the heavily destroyed state capital Saarbrücken . After the failure of his reconstruction plan for Saarbrücken, which he presented in 1947, he was appointed commissioner for reconstruction in Lorraine in 1949, where he was involved in urban planning in Metz, Sarreguemines and Briey-en-Forêt. From 1950 to 1955 he led the reconstruction of the badly damaged community of Waldwisse on the border with Saarland. From 1950 to 1955 he set up the French Embassy in Saarbrücken in collaboration with Hans Bert Baur and Bernhard Schultheis . The sacred buildings he created in Lorraine are the Église de la Nativité de la Vierge in Fleury (1955–1963), the Église Saint-Martin-Évêque in Corny-sur-Moselle (1960) and the Église Saint-Antoine in Boust (1955 -1963). On the Île de la Cité in Paris he realized the memorial for the martyrs of the deportation (1961–1962). He was also commissioned to rebuild the medieval village of Grillon in the Vaucluse department (1974–1978).

Buildings

Former French Embassy in Saarbrücken (north facade)

Former French embassy in Saarbrücken (west facade with staircase tower)

• 1925 Racecourse Canche at Touquet-Paris-Plage Paul Furiet
• 1926–1927 workers' houses for the French Society of Explosives, Cugny,
• 1926–1927 Theater at the Colosseum Kino Nimes
• 1926–1928 Bourboulon Villa in the neighborhood of Costebelle Hyères (Var)
• 1927–1928 Villa Isola Serena Cannes
• 1928 Villa Romée Cannes
• 1929–1931 Theater, Comedy Paris, 42 rue Fontaine, 9th Arrondissement Paris
• 1932 Hotel Latitude 43 Saint-Tropez
• 1952–1955 French Embassy in Saarbrücken (until 2014 Ministry of Education and Culture of Saarland)
• 1953–1960: Metz fire station
• 1954–1964: Memorial to the martyrs of the deportation on the Ile de la Cité Paris
• 1960 Église Saint-Martin-Évêque in Corny-sur-Moselle
• 1955–1963 Église de la Nativité de la Vierge in Fleury
• 1955–1963 Église Saint-Maximin in Boust
• 1960 Briey kindergarten and elementary school
• 1968–1974 Technical High School near Sarreguemines

literature

• Anne Katrin Wadle: The 'Ambassade de France' on the Saar by Georges-Henry Pingusson. Master's thesis, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 1995.
• Jean-Philippe Donzé George-Henri Pingusson dans l'est de la France et en Sarre: architecture, création, modernité, mémoire sous la dir. de Joseph Abram, Ecole d'architecture de Nancy, 1995.
• Jean-Philippe Donzé Georges-Henri Pingusson, architecte. L'Œuvre lorraine. Itinéraire du patrimoine 147, Ed. Serpenoise, Metz 1997.
• Simon Texier, Georges-Henri Pingusson, architecte, 1894–1978. L'architecture comme “transcendance poétique du concret”, or l'impossible doctrine. Diss.-Phil. Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne, 1998.
• Simon Texier, Georges-Henri Pingusson, architecte, 1894–1978. Ed. Verdier, Paris 2006.
• Anne Katrin Haufe-Wadle: Representation between functionalism and poetry. On the architecture of the former “Ambassade de France” by Georges-Henri Pingusson. In: SaarGeschichten, 2006 issue 2.
• Alfred Werner Maurer : Georges-Henri Pingusson - an architect of the Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM). Philologus Verlag Basel.
• Alfred Werner Maurer: Architectural icons Provence, Côte d'Azur + Riviera - Latitude 43 in Saint-Tropez. Philologus Verlag, Basel 2008.
• Alfred Werner Maurer: Architect George-Henri Pingusson and the motif of the ocean liner - genesis and idea for the Latitude 43 in Saint-Tropez. Philologus Verlag, Basel 2009.
• Marlen Dittmann, Dietmar Kolling: Georges-Henri Pingusson and the construction of the French embassy in Saarbrücken. Deutscher Werkbund Saarland and Institute for Current Art (ed.), Verlag St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2011.
• Simon Texier: Georges-Henri Pingusson. Éditions du Patrimoine, Paris 2011.
• Kristine Marschall: Former French Embassy, ​​Saarbrücken (Saarland). Ministry of Education and Culture, State Monuments Office Saarland (Ed.) Saarbrücken 2013.
• Eva Mendgen: Ex-Ambassade: The French Embassy on the Saar, in: Saarbrücker Hefte No. 110/111, Saarbrücken 2014, pp. 90–96.
• The former French embassy in Saarbrücken by Georges-Henri Pingusson. A monument to Franco-German building culture in Saarland. Deutscher Werkbund Saarland and Institute for Current Art (ed.), Verlag St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Texier 2011, p. 34.
2. ↑ Asking for a Moses from outside in FAZ of October 28, 2014, page 9