Ferdinand Cheval
Ferdinand Cheval (born April 19, 1836 in Charmes-sur-l'Herbasse , Département Drôme ; † August 19, 1924 in Hauterives , Département Drôme) was a French postman and builder of the so-called "Palais idéal".
life and work
As a country mailman with no technical training, he realized his great dream and built his highly idiosyncratic “Palais idéal” (1879–1912), which was supposed to serve as a tomb, in Hauterives (Département Drôme) over decades. Since he did not receive a permit for this, he later erected a smaller tomb in the same style in the cemetery of Hauterives (1914-1922).
The buildings of the "Facteur Cheval" ("Postman Cheval") were initially considered pure bizarre, especially among architects, but they were highly valued by representatives of Surrealism , namely André Breton , to whom Cheval dedicated a poem of homage. Other outsiders of architecture, such as Friedensreich Hundertwasser, later referred to the country mailman in his mold manifestation . Until the mid-1960s, initiatives to place the work of the loner under monument protection were rejected several times. The fact that it came to this in 1969 was probably thanks to a personal initiative by the then French Minister of Culture, André Malraux . Today the buildings of the country postman are visited by over one hundred thousand people every year.
gallery
East side of the Palais idéal in Hauterives
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Robert Schediwy: City Images - Reflections on Change in Architecture and Urbanism , Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7755-8 (especially p. 273ff.)
- Jörg Seifert: “Between glass saws and roaring deer. Comments on the aesthetic value judgment of architects and laypeople ”, in What is beauty? archithese 5.2005, pp. 40-45, ISBN 3-7212-0553-7
- Peter Weiss : The great dream of the postman Cheval in ders .: Reports , Edition Suhrkamp Frankfurt / Main 1968 p. 36ff
- Ferdinand Werner : The long way to new building . Volume 2: cement and artificial stone. The triumph of the imagination . Worms 2016. ISBN 978-3-88462-372-5 , pp. 484-487.
reception
Movies
In September 2018, the life story of Ferdinand Cheval in the film L'incroyable histoire du facteur Cheval was released in French cinemas. In French -speaking Switzerland , the film opened on January 16, 2019, and in German-speaking Switzerland on July 18, 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ L'incroyable histoire du facteur Cheval Description on cineman.ch accessed on July 30, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cheval, Ferdinand |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French postman and builder of the so-called "Palais idéal" |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1836 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Charmes-sur-l'Herbasse , Drôme department |
DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1924 |
Place of death | Hauterives , Drôme department |