Jean-Baptiste Vallin de La Mothe

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Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de La Mothe (* 1729 in Angoulême , † 7. May 1800 ) was a French architect of classicism with main focus in St. Petersburg .

Life

Vallin studied with his cousin Jacques-François Blondel in Paris . Thanks to the support of his cousin, he was accepted into the Académie de France à Rome in 1750 . There he came into contact with Charles-Louis Clérisseau , Julien-David Le Roy , Gabriel François Doyen , Louis Jean François Lagrenée , Jean-Jacques Caffieri and Augustin Pajou and was enthusiastic about Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi . He drew the facade of the building in which Giovanni Battista Piranesi had his studio .

In 1752 Vallin returned to Paris and worked for his uncle Jean-François Blondel , who built a lot in Paris, Rouen and Geneva . For a competition, Vallin developed a project for the place of Louis XV. which he published in the Mercure de France in 1754 . In 1755 he presented Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke , the plan for a riding arena for Wilton House , which an unknown English architect built.

After the death of his uncle in 1756, Vallin was unemployed. His cousin Jacques-François Blondel was commissioned by the Russian authorities in 1757 to plan the building of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1751 by Count Ivan Shuvalov . In 1759 Vallin received an invitation from the Russian ambassador Mikhail Bestuschew-Ryumin on the recommendation of his cousin Blondel to come to the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts as a teacher of architecture . He accepted the invitation and went to St. Petersburg. 1761-1767 he built in particular the Gostiny Dwor department store (together with Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli ) and the Roman Catholic Church of St. Catherine on Nevsky Prospect (completed by Antonio Rinaldi ) and the Small Hermitage on the Neva , the Novaya Gollandija Gate on the Moika and for Count Ivan Tschernyschow a castle-like dacha on the road to Peterhof .

In 1763 Vallin began planning the new Academy of Fine Arts on Vasilyevsky Island , taking elements of his cousin's planning. Construction began in 1765 under the direction of Alexander Kokorinov . Financial problems led to an interruption of the work (1768–1776), so that the construction work was not completed until 1781 and the academy was opened in 1794.

In 1775 Vallin returned to France due to his poor health . In 1782 he built a classical Hôtel particulier in Angoulême for Thomas de Bardines.

Works

  • Gostiny Dvor, St. Petersburg

  • St. Catherine Church, St. Petersburg

  • Small Hermitage, St. Petersburg

  • Novaya Gollandija Gate, St. Petersburg

  • Tschernischow-Datsche on the road to Peterhof

  • Vallins plan of the Academy of Fine Arts (excerpt)

  • Hotel particulier de Bardines, Angoulême

Web links

Commons : Jean-Baptiste Vallin de La Mothes Buildings  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia: VALLIN DE LA MOTHE Jean Baptiste Michel (accessed October 25, 2017).
  2. ^ A b David Watkin: A History of Western Architecture . 2005, p. 421 .
  3. ^ Projet pour la place Louis XV par le sieur Vallin de La Mothe de Paris, architecte et membre des académies de Florence et de l'institut de Bologne . In: Mercure de France . 1754.
  4. ↑ Basile Baudez: Un Français au pays du cheval: Vallin de La Mothe et Wilton House, 1755 . In: Livraisons d'histoire de l'architecture . tape 6 , no. 1 , 2003, p. 9-27 .
  5. ↑ L'hôtel de Bardines (accessed on 25 October 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Vallin de La Mothe, Jean-Baptiste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vallin de La Mothe, Jean-Baptiste-Michel (full name); Старов, Иван Егорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classicist architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Angoulême
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1800
Place of death Angoulême