Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar

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Jean Pierre Cluysenaar

Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar (born March 28, 1811 in Kampen (Netherlands) , † February 16, 1880 in Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis , Brussels ) was an architect of eclecticism .

Live and act

Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar belonged to the Klausener family of architects and engineers from Flirsch in Tyrol , who settled in Aachen and Burtscheid . His great-grandfather was Paul Klausener from Flirsch. A branch of this family emigrated to Holland, where over the generations the last name changed to Kluisenaar and Cluysenaar.

Cluysenaar's training included attending Tieleman Franciscus Suys's courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. This shaped his style when designing his Renaissance buildings. His way of working was the style rustique. Cluysenaar built castles, hotels and public buildings. In 1841 he took Belgian citizenship and was naturalized .

In 1818 James Cockerill had one of the last couven buildings at Friedrich Wilhelm Platz 7 in Aachen converted by Cluysenaar . In 1846 he built the great hall in this building, which had belonged to the recreation society since 1845.

His casino was built in Burtscheid two years earlier . In competition with Friedrich Joseph Ark , Cluysenaar drafted a plan in 1852 for the expansion of the Aachen Elisenbrunnen . This included a renovation and an increase in both wing structures, including higher extensions to the garden front. The project was not realized and the plan was archived in the planning chamber of the Aachen city building office, where it was still in 1930.

Cluysenaar was one of the first architects in Belgium to have structures made in steel and iron . One of his main works is the Royal Saint Hubert Galleries , a covered shopping arcade in Brussels. It was inaugurated on June 20, 1847.

family

Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar was married twice. First marriage to Elisabeth Puttaert and the second to Adelaide Puttaert. His son Jean André Alfred Cluysenaar (1837–1902) became a painter who was particularly well-known in Belgium. His daughter Clothilde (August 31, 1834– August 15, 1901) later married the architect Gustave Saintenoy (1832–1892) and was the mother of Paul Saintenoy (1862–1952 Brussels), the last known architect of the Klausen line.

With Jean-Pierre's grandson and André Edmond Alfred Cluysenaar (1872–1939), son of Jean André Alfred, who also worked as a painter, the family continued the artistic line. His son John Edmond Cluysenaar (1899–1986) began his career as a sculptor and was later also successful as a painter. In 1924 he won the Prix ​​de Rome and in 1925 the Prix Godecharle. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, John moved to England and Scotland, but returned to Belgium after the war. His daughter Anne (1936–2014) stayed in the United Kingdom and lived as a poet and poet in Wales after completing her studies at Trinity College in Dublin .

Titles, awards and memberships

Works (selection)

Aachen

  • Kurbrunnenstrasse 42, Richard Erckens Commercial Councilor
  • Franzstraße 48, Nellessen ( attributed )
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Platz 6, Hotel Nuellens (very questionable attribution)
  • Templergraben 79 (possibly attribution)

Castles and Hotels

The Kasteel de Viron in Dillbeek

Public architecture

  • Salle de la Grande Harmonie, 1841, Brussels
  • Cercle Noble, 1843, received.
  • Kiosk in Warandepark , Brussels (1840)
  • Royal Galleries of St. Hubertus , Brussels (1845–1847)
  • Concert building, Aachen (1846)
  • Facade of the Théâtre de l'Alhambra, 1846, 1974 destroyed.
  • Development Bas-Fonds on Koningsstraat / rue Royale behind the congress column , Brussels, 1847
  • Marché de la Madeleine / Magdalenamarkt, Brussels (1847), overw. destroy
  • Place du Congrès, 1847–50
  • Galerie Bortier / Bortiergalerij , Brussels (1848)
  • Half-round in the Senate building, 1849
  • Hospice des aveugles de la porte de Hal, 1856
  • Stations on the former Dendre et Waes line: Ternat (1856), Aalst (1856), Zandbergen (1860)
  • Institute for the Blind at Halletor , Brussels (1852)
  • Iron Church in Argenteuil near Waterloo (1855–1862)
  • Theater and Kurhaus, Homburg vor der Höhe (1851, 1862–1866)
  • Royal Conservatory Brussels , rue de la Régence / Regentschapsstraat, Brussels (1872–1876)
  • Notre-Dame de la Visitation, Rochefort (1874)

  • Royal Saint Hubertus Gallery

  • Aalst train station

  • Villa Servais in Halle

  • Kiosk in Warandepark Brussels

  • Royal Conservatory in Brussels

  • Bortier Gallery

  • Notre-Dame de la Visitation

literature

  • Rudolf Dünnwald: Aachen architecture in the 19th century. Friedrich Ark city architect 1839–1876. (= Aachen contributions to architectural history and local art . Vol. 6 in the context of the Aachen History Association, edited by Bernhard Poll ). Aachen History Association, Aachen 1974.
  • Eduard Philipp Arnold : The old Aachen residential building. Aachen History Association, Aachen 1930, (Arnold), pp. 261f., 290.
  • Fanny Cluysenaar: Les Cluysenaar, une famille d'artistes . Weissenbruch, Brussels 1928.

Web links

Commons : Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold, p. 290.
  2. ^ Arnold, pp. 261f.
  3. ↑ Biography Anne Cuysenaar (engl.)
  4. ↑ Kasteel Rey at inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be


personal data
SURNAME Cluysenaar, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Architect of eclecticism
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Kampen (Netherlands)
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1880
Place of death Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis