Jean-Jacques Lequeu

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Self-portrait by Lequeu
Design for the gate of a hunting ground

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (born September 14, 1757 in Rouen ; † March 28, 1826 ) was a French architect. He is considered a well-known representative of theoretical drafts of the architecture parlante of the revolutionary architecture .

He came to Paris on a scholarship. His main work is the never published book Architecture Civile . Many of his drawings can now be found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , some classified as "pornographic" are filed in the Enfer .

literature

  • Emil Kaufmann : Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullee, Ledoux and Lequeu. In: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 43, 1953, pp. 436-473 (French translation: Trois architectes révolutionnaires, Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu , Paris, SADG, 1978).
  • Jacques Guillerme : Lequeu et l'invention du mauvais goût. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Paris, September 1965, pp. 153–166.
  • Jacques Guillerme: Lequeu, l'irrégulier et l'éclectique. In: Dix-huitième siècle , N ° 6, 1974, pp. 167-180.
  • Philippe Duboy : Lequeu: An Architectural Enigma. MIT Press, Cambridge 1986, 367 pp.
  • Annie Jacques, Jean-Pierre Mouilleseaux: Les Architectes de la Liberté , Paris, Gallimard, coll. "  Découvertes Gallimard / Arts", No. 47, 1988.
  • Philippe Duboy: La Fantasmagorie de l'architecte. In: Les architectes de la liberté 1789–1799 , Paris, ENSBA, ISBN 978-2-90363-965-5 . (Catalog of the exhibition from October 4, 1989 to January 7, 1990.)
  • La Révolution en Haute-Normandie 1789–1802 In: éditions du P'tit Normand, Comité régional d'Histoire de la Révolution, Rouen 1989, ISBN 978-2-906258-18-1 , p. 464.
  • Laurent Baridon, Jean-Philippe Garric, Martial Guédron: Jean-Jacques Lequeu, bâtisseur de fantasmes. Paris, BnF / Norma, 2018, 192 p., Catalog de l'exposition du Petit Palais.
  • Elisa Boeri: Jean Jacques Lequeu. Un atlas des mémoires , Paris, Editions des Cendres, 2018, 240 pp.
  • Laurent Baridon, Jean-Philippe Garric, Martial Guédron: Lexique Lequeu , Paris Editions B2, 2018, 226 pp.

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personal data
SURNAME Lequeu, Jean-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Rouen
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1826