Jean-Baptiste Lepère
Jean-Baptiste Lepère (born December 1, 1761 in Paris , † July 16, 1844 there ) was a French architect .
Life
Lepère stayed in Saint-Domingue from 1787 to 1790 and in Constantinople from 1796 to 1798 . From 1798 to 1801 he was one of the members of the Commission des sciences et des arts that Napoleon Bonaparte took on his Egyptian expedition . As such an artistic member, he contributed a large part of the drafts for the famous monumental work Description de l'Égypte , which was created a little later . Back in France, he was appointed architect of the Malmaison Castle by the First Consul in 1802 . 1805 to 1810 Lepère built the Colonne Vendôme with Jacques Gondouinin Paris, where he was responsible in particular for the implementation of the measures and the laying of the metal part of the monument. In 1811 he was commissioned to build a granite obelisk as a reminder of the Egyptian campaign on the Pont Neuf . This work was discarded and the base for the equestrian statue of Henry IV was set up in the same place in 1818 .
Lepère was primarily active as a state palace architect: he was appointed architect of St-Cloud by the emperor in 1810 and was also responsible for the preparations for the celebration of the birth of the King of Rome in 1811. From 1812 to 1830 he was the architect of the Fontainebleau Castle . From 1815 to 1823 he was also the architect of St-Germain-en-Laye , Meudon and Sèvres . His most important work since 1824 was the planning and construction of the classicist church of St. Vincent-de-Paul in Paris, in close collaboration with his son-in-law Jakob Ignaz Hittorff .
Through the estate of his son-in-law Hittorff, his artistic estate also came to the graphic collection of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne. showed.
literature
- Auguste Galimard : Notice biographique on Jean-Baptiste Lepère architecte. Ducessois, Paris 1847.
- Lepère, Jean-Baptiste . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 99 .
- Wolfgang Müller-Wiener : Jean-Baptiste Lepère (1761–1844) in Istanbul. On the early work of a master builder of classicism. In: Ulrich Schneider (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Gerhard Bott for his 60th birthday. Darmstadt 1987, pp. 103-113.
- Françoise Labrique, Uwe Westfehling (ed.): With Napoleon in Egypt. The drawings of Jean-Baptiste Lepère . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-8053-4103-5 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Adolphe Lance: Le Père (Jean-Baptiste) . In: Dictionnaire des architectes français . VA Morel, Paris 1872, p. 64 (French, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lepère, Jean-Baptiste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Le Père, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1844 |
| Place of death | Paris |