Jacques Albert Brion

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Jacques Albert Brion (born June 8, 1843 in Goxwiller , France , † 1910 in Strasbourg ) was a French architect and an important exponent of Art Nouveau in Alsace .

Brion was born as the son of the painter Gustave Adolphe Brion in the Alsatian wine-growing village of Goxwiller. He studied in Paris from 1865 to 1868 . He then worked in Mulhouse and from 1871 in Strasbourg. There he designed the Anatomical Institute (1874), the Institute for Physiological Chemistry (1883) and the Gynecological Clinic (1886), as well as synagogues, schools and town halls. After merging with Jules Berninger , he also built a number of commercial and private houses. B. in Strasbourg today some can still be seen.

Examples for this are:

  • “Dusch & Cie” shop (26, fossé des Tanneurs), 1889
  • Voltz house (17, avenue de la Liberté), 1890–1891
  • “Haas & Levy” shop (40, rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Vins), 1892
  • Villa Burger (20, avenue de la Paix), 1891-1892
  • Villa Clog (29, allée de la Robertsau), 1891–1892
  • Villa Klein (7, rue Lamey), 1891–1892
  • Civil hospital (20, rue du Moulin, Bischwiller ), 1870

With Eugène Haug he created the following buildings:

  • Office building of the insurance company “Rhin & Moselle” (5, rue Joffre), 1898
  • Strasbourg bank office building (24, rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Vins), 1897
  • House (67, avenue des Vosges), 1902
  • House (47, avenue des Vosges), 1903
  • Tietz department store (5, quai de Paris), 1905

The famous “Maison Rouge” hotel-restaurant on Place Kléber (1898), whose winter garden was decorated with Art Nouveau glass windows, has since been demolished and replaced by a shopping center . Here lived u. a. Konrad Adenauer , Winston Churchill and Ernest Hemingway .

In 1885 he created the building for what was then the Catholic girls' school in Wissembourg (4, quai du 24-Novembre).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Parent, Emmanuel Fritsch: Ecole primaire de filles catholiques, école Ohleyer. In: http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/ . November 16, 2001, accessed on August 21, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Brion, Jacques Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Goxwiller , France
DATE OF DEATH 1910
Place of death Strasbourg , France