Raimondo D'Aronco

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Raimondo D'Aronco (1900)

Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco (* 31 August 1857 in Gemona del Friuli , † 3. May 1932 in Sanremo ) was an Italian architect of the Art Nouveau . He served the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdülhamid II as chief architect and is considered to be the innovator of Istanbul .

Life

D'Aronco was born the first son of a civil engineer; he had six siblings. After elementary school, he began a two-year training at the Scuola d'Arti e Mestieri in Gemona. At the instigation of his father, he then worked for a master builder in Graz and attended the architecture school there at the age of fourteen.

Back in Italy, he turned to architecture on the advice of his teachers and became a student at the Scuola Festiva di Disegno. In 1875 he served as a volunteer in the engineering corps of the Italian Army in Turin . After military service, he studied the philosophy of Camillo Boito at the renowned Accademia di belle arti di Venezia (diploma in 1880), where he took courses in ornamentation and architecture. He took part in competitions in Rome, Venice and Palermo , some of which were advertised by the Italian King Victor Emanuel II . In 1887 he became professor of drawing and architecture at the University of Messina , and later at the Royal Institute in Palermo. In 1888 he received an honorary membership of the Art Academy in Venice.

In 1893 he was invited to Constantinople as an architect for the national exhibition "Ottoman Art" . The exhibition pavilion was not realized because of the earthquake in 1894. Instead, he was won over for the reconstruction of destroyed buildings and the then Sultan Abdülhamid II appointed him as chief architect from 1896 to 1908. He was the first architect to build in the Art Nouveau style in Istanbul. He also taught at the military academy. His completed building projects included u. a. the Yıldız Porcelain Factory (1892-1894), the expansion of the Yıldız Palace (1893-1907), the Botter Apartment (1900), the Imperial Medical School (1900-1903) and the Türbe for Şeyh Zafir (1905-1906) and several Summer residences.

He also designed the exhibition building for the Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna (1902) in Turin and took on various projects in Cividale del Friuli and Udine in Italy. In 1905 he co-founded the Italian Federazione Architetti. After the sultan's deposition in the course of the Young Turkish Revolution, he moved back to Italy in 1909. In 1917 he became a professor of architecture in Naples. Various honors have been awarded to him. a. membership in the Accademia di San Luca (1920). In the XXII. As a representative of the constituency of Gemona, he belonged to the Italian Chamber of Deputies , in which he joined the right wing, but hardly took part in parliamentary work.

He was married to Rita Catterina Maria Javelli from 1888. He died in 1932, marked by a lung disease. His estate is in the Udine library.

In 1955 Manfredi Nicoletti was the first to write a biography about D'Aronco.

literature

  • Manfredi Nicoletti : Raimondo d'Aronco. Il Balcone, Milan 1955.
  • Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi su "Raimondo D'Aronco e il suo Tempo" . Istituto per l'Enciclopedia del Friuli, Udine 1982.
  • Giuseppe Miano:  D'Aronco, Raimondo Tommaso. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 32:  Dall'Anconata – Da Ronco. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1986.
  • Giuseppe Bergamini: D'Aronco, Raimondo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 24, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22764-7 , p. 300.
  • James Stevens Curl: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture . Oxford University Press, Oxford u. a. 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9 , p. 42.

Web links

Commons : Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zeynep Çelik: The Remaking of Istanbul. Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century . University of California Press, Berkeley et al. a. 1986, ISBN 0-520-08239-7 , p. 146.
  2. ↑ Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati
personal data
SURNAME D'Aronco, Raimondo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D'Aronco, Raimondo Tommaso (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and politician, member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemona del Friuli
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1932
Place of death Sanremo