Pascal Coste
Pascal Xavier Coste (born November 29, 1787 in Marseille ; † February 7, 1879 there ) was a French engineer and architect who became famous as a draftsman and painter.
The son of a carpenter studied under Michel-Robert Penchaud (1772-1833) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
From 1817 to 1822 and 1823 to 1827 he lived and traveled through Egypt , where he designed various industrial buildings on behalf of Muhammad Ali Pascha . With his album “Architecture arabe et monuments du Caire” he provided a detailed documentation of Islamic art in Cairo . Together with Jules Laurens he published the work "Description de l'Egypte".
On his return in 1828 he became an architect for the city of Marseille. In 1829 he was appointed professor at the École d'architecture de Marseille . His knowledge of the Arabic language and ancient architecture aroused the interest of the Institut de France and the French Foreign Ministry, which commissioned him from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres together with the painter Eugène Flandin (1803– 1876) sent from 1839 to 1841 in a group of the then French ambassador, Comte Édouard de Sercey, to the court of the Shah of Persia. This is where the joint works “Voyage en Perse” (1843) and “La Perse ancienne” (1848) were created. The album "Esfahan de l'année 1840" with drawings of the city of Isfahan was released on the basis of the works there .
His architectural designs were often considered too expensive in Europe, so that they were rarely carried out. In 1852 he prevailed as an architect in a tender for the construction of a building for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Marseille ( Palais de la Bourse ), which was built in 1860 and was designed by Napoléon III. was inaugurated. Today the building houses the Marine and Trade Museum ( Musée de la Marine et de l'Économie ).
literature
- Hans Vollmer : Coste, Pascal Xavier . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 539-540 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Angelika Leitzke: The image of the Orient in French painting from Napoleon's Egypt campaign to the Franco-German War. Tectum Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-8288-8267-6 .
Web links
- Jean Calmard: Flandin and Coste. In: Encyclopædia Iranica . Online Edition, December 15, 1999 (English, iranicaonline letter "F", p. 35)
- Marseille Palais de la Bourse
- Voyage en Perse at the NYPL Digital Gallery
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coste, Pascal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coste, Pascal Xavier (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engineer and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1879 |
| Place of death | Marseille |