Jacques Gréber

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Jacques Gréber (complete: Jacques Henri Auguste Gréber ); (Born September 10, 1882 in Paris , France ; †  June 5, 1962 ibid) was a French landscape architect specializing in landscape architecture and urban planning . He was a representative of Beaux Arts architecture and became known primarily in the United States as a supporter of the City Beautiful Movement , a reform movement in North American urban planning from 1890 to 1920.

Life

As the son of the sculptor Henri-Léon Gréber, Gréber grew up in Paris. There he attended the École des Beaux-Arts from 1901 to 1908 . After receiving his diploma as an architect in 1909, he went to the United States and designed many private gardens and public green spaces there.

Selected Works

Drawing "View to the Museum" (1918), Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia (USA)

Gréber was in charge of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia (1917), presented work at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 and designed the so-called. Greber plan the town planning for the Canadian capital Ottawa (1950).

In Europe, Gréber worked as an urban planner for the French cities of Lille , Belfort , Marseille (1930), Abbeville and Rouen . After the First World War he designed four American military cemeteries in France, in Fère-en-Tardenois , Bois-Belleau, Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine) and Romagne-sous-Montfaucon. Between the world wars, he mainly worked as a garden designer. Gréber built various villas on the Côte d'Azur (Villa Altana and Villa Eilen in Antibes ), the gardens of the Malbosc Castle in Grasse , and the gardens of the Villa Espalmador on Cap Ferrat . In Portugal, Gréber designed the gardens of the Casa de Serralves in Porto , an example of the landscape architecture of the Art Deco period.

gallery

  • Whitemarsh Hall Gardens, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania (USA), (built 1916–21, demolished 1980)

  • Lynnewood Hall Gardens (Peter AB Widener), photograph (1916)

  • Fairmount Parkway plan, now Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia (USA), drawing (1917)

  • Serralves Gardens in Porto , Portugal

  • Green belt, landscape planning 1950 around the city of Ottawa , Canada

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ E. Delaire et al., Les architectes élèves de l'école des Beaux-Arts, 1793–1907 in James T. Maher, The Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the Age of American Palaces 1975: 65, Comment 78 (Eng.) .
  2. ↑ Colette Felenbok and André Lortie, Jacques Greber, Architecte Urbaniste , in GREBER, catalog de l'exposition: les Greber, une dynastie des artistes , 1994, published by the Musée Départemental de l'Oise and the Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz, p. 325 -395, ISBN 2-901290-10-8 .
  3. ↑ Urban planning for Ottawa 1950 (Engl.)
personal data
SURNAME Gréber, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gréber, Jacques Henri Auguste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1962
Place of death Paris