Nicolas de Pigage

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Nicolas de Pigage
by Anna Dorothea Therbusch

Nicolas de Pigage (born August 3, 1723 in Lunéville , † July 30, 1796 in Schwetzingen ) was a Lorraine builder .

life and work

As the son of a stonemason, he began studying at the École Militaire in Paris in 1743 and switched to the Académie royale d'architecture a year later , where he studied under Jacques-François Blondel . Elector Carl Theodor called him to the Palatinate court in Mannheim , where he was appointed chief building director in 1752.

Benrath Castle was built from 1755 to 1773 under the direction of Pigage . During the construction period, Nicolas de Pigage was appointed garden director of the Electoral Palatinate in 1762. Pigage was involved in the construction of the residence in Mannheim and the Schwetzingen palace gardens , where he also built the palace theater and expanded the nave of St. Pankratius . At Mannheim Castle he was commissioned to build the east wing.

Pigage is also the architect of the Karlstor in Heidelberg , the Speyerer Tor in Frankenthal (Palatinate) as well as an estate belonging to the care Schönau . He built a palace on the Zeil in Frankfurt am Main for the Electoral Palatinate banker Franz Maria Schweitzer .

Honors

The city of Mannheim named a street after him in the Rheinau district . In Düsseldorf-Benrath , too, a street was named after him in the immediate vicinity of the palace. The name of a street in Schwetzingen also reminds of the builder.

Worth knowing

The painter Werner von Pigage is a descendant of Nicolas de Pigage's brother, even if he liked to portray himself as his descendant.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Catalog raisonné des tableaux de la Galerie électorale de Dusseldorf / redigé d'après le catalog raisonné et figuré de N. de Pigage . Ed. review and augm. Daenzer, Düsseldorf 1805 ( digitized version )
  • Galerie électorale de Dusseldorf ou catalog raisonné et figuré de ses tableaux: dans lequel on donne une connoissance exacte de cette fameuse collection, & de son local, par des descriptions détaillées, & par une suite de 30 planches, contenant 365 petites estampes rédigées & gravées d'après ces mêmes tableaux . Du Mechel, Basel 1778 ( digitized version )
  • Wiltrud Heber:  Pigage, Nicolas de. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 436 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wiltrud Heber: The work of Nicolas de Pigage in the former Palatinate residences in Mannheim and Schwetzingen = manuscripts for art history in the Werner publishing company 10. 2 volumes. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 1986. ISBN 978-3-88462-909-3
  • Sneezer:  Pigage, Nicolas de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 125.
  • NN: Nicolas de Pigage 1723-1796. Architect of the Elector Carl Theodor . Exhibition catalog Düsseldorf and Mannheim. Cologne 1996.
  • Hans Leopold Zollner: Nicolas de Pigage. His life and work . In: Badische Heimat 4 (1975), pp. 115-127.

Web links

Commons : Nicolas de Pigage  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on Palais Schweitzer in Frankfurt
  2. ↑ MARCHIVUM: street names, Pigagestraße. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ designation of Pigagestraße in Schwetzingen, 1972



personal data
SURNAME Pigage, Nicolas de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pigage, Nicolaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French builder
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneville
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1796
Place of death Schwetzingen