Louis Remy de la Fosse

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Louis Remy de la Fosse (* around 1659 in France ; † 17th September 1726 in Darmstadt ) was a French architect of the baroque , who worked in Germany.

Origin and family

Little is known about his origins and training. He may be the son of the painter Charles de Lafosse . He probably emigrated from France to Germany after the Edict of Nantes was repealed . He is very likely the father of the cartographer and engraver Georges Louis Le Rouge . Perhaps his real name is therefore Nicolaus Le Rouge. An emigration from France because of the repeal of the Edict of Nantes is unlikely since he was buried as a Catholic in 1726.

Life

Until 1705 he worked as a draftsman in Johann Friedrich Eosander's studio in Berlin . His unexecuted design for Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin has survived from 1705 . At the beginning of 1706 he was appointed the first architect at Georg Ludwig's court in Hanover. From 1706 to 1709 he worked in Hanover, in 1710 and 1711 in Kassel and again in Hanover until 1714. From 1714 he was a chief engineer in Darmstadt in the service of Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt and headed the entire civil and military construction sector until his death. He was also responsible for regulating the Rhine and the associated hydraulic structures. Furthermore, the plan for a hedge theater in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen goes back to him; the illustration can be found in the engravings by Georges Louis Le Rouge.

Works

Reconstruction plan for the residential palace in Darmstadt

literature

  • Helmut Knocke : Louis Remy de la Fosse . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 119.
  • Horst Kruse: The Ständehaus 1710–1881 and the architect Remy de la Fosse . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . NF 51, 1997, ISSN  0342-1104 , pp. 195-284.
  • Michel Racine (ed.): Créateurs de jardins et de paysages de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle. Volume 1: De la Renaissance au début du XIXe siècle. Actes Sud, Arles 2001, ISBN 2-7427-3280-2 , p. 143.
  • Hans Reuther :  Fosse, Charles Louis Rémy de la. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 305 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Joseph Schlippe : Louis Remy de la Fosse and his buildings . In: Quarterly pages of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse , NF 5th volume (1915), pp. 291ff, 334ff.
  • Joseph Schlippe : Louis Remy de la Fosse and his buildings . Darmstadt, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 1916 (From: Quarterly papers of the Historical Association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse . NF; 5.17–20.1915 / 1916)
  • Jürgen Rainer Wolf (Red.): Louis Remy de la Fosse (exhibition catalog, Darmstadt in the Baroque and Rococo Periods, vol. 2), Darmstadt 1980, 148 pp.

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SURNAME La Fosse, Louis Remy de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Fosse, Louis Rémy de; Le Rouge, Nicolaus; Lerouge, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect who worked in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH around 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH France
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1726
Place of death Darmstadt