Henri Fraisse

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Jean-Victor Henri Fraisse (born December 1, 1804 in Lausanne ; died February 20, 1841 in Montreux ) was a Swiss architect .

The son of the architect Jean-Abraham Fraisse attended the Lausanne Academy at the age of sixteen and then completed an apprenticeship with the local architect Jean-Siméon Descombes. After a stay in Rome in 1825, he studied from 1826 to 1830 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in Achille Leclère's studio .

Selection of works

  • Grenette , Kornhaus, Lausanne 1838–40
  • Eglise de la Croix d'Ouchy , Lausanne 1839–40

literature

supporting documents

  1. Joëlle Neuenschwander Feihl, Gilles Barbey, Georg Germann: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850-1920 . Lausanne. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 5 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-280-01982-6 , p. 356 , col. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-6589 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on February 8, 2016]).
  2. INSA Volume 5 p. 351 ( e-periodica.ch )