Victor Laloux
Victor Laloux (born November 15, 1850 in Tours , † July 13, 1937 in Paris ) was a French architect. One of his most famous buildings is a train station in Paris, the Gare d'Orsay (now the Musée d'Orsay ), which he designed in 1900 for the Paris – Orléans link.
Life
Laloux was a student of Louis-Jule André at the Paris School of Art since 1869. His studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. In 1878 he won first place in the “ Prix de Rome ” with a design entitled “une église cathédrale”.
The young laureate attended the Académie de France in Rome from January 1879 to the end of December 1882 .
As the right hand man and successor to André, who died in 1890, he himself led numerous students to the “Prix de Rome”. In 1909 he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (seat no. 6 in the architecture section). As a practicing architect and professor, Laloux is one of the academy's great representatives at the time of the Belle Époque . One of his students was René Binet .
In 1927 Laloux was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1932 in New York an honorary member of the National Academy of Design .
He managed his workshop until 1936 and then passed it on to his student and friend Charles Lemaresquier .
Publications
- L'architecture grecque , Paris 1888.
- with P. Monceaux, Restauration d'Olympie. L'histoire, les monuments, le culte et les fêtes , Paris 1889.
Buildings
Avid advocate of metal as a building material, he carefully hid it behind classically designed stone facades, following the example of his contemporaries Henri Deglane , Albert Louvet and Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas when designing the Grand Palais in Paris.
Other works are:
- The town halls of the cities of Roubaix and Tours
- The Saint-Martin de Tours basilica
- Tours train station
- The headquarters of the major bank Crédit Lyonnais on Rue du Quatre-Septembre in Paris
- The United States Embassy on Avenue Gabriel in Paris, in collaboration with American architects Delano & Aldrich
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "L" / Laloux, Victor Honorary 1932 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 30, 2015)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laloux, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tours , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1937 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |