Gabrielle Germain Boffrand [3] ( fr. Germain Boffrand ; b. 1667 , Nantes - 1754 , Paris ) - French architect and decorator of the Rococo era.
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Life and work
Born in the family of an architect. With his maternal uncle, the poet Philip Kino , in 1681 he came to Paris. Here Cinema puts a young man at the royal court of Versailles and introduces him to the number of visitors to the then fashionable literary salons of the French capital. Here Bofran enters the teachings of the sculptor Francois Girardot , but four years later he passes from him to the architect Jules Arduin-Mansard . In 1709, Beaufrand became a member of the Royal Academy of Architecture. In 1711 he was appointed the first (chief) architect of the Duke of Lorraine. F. Beaufrand was mainly engaged in orders of the aristocracy and the urban bourgeoisie, for which he built estates and houses in Paris (Hotel Lebrun, Hotel Amelo, Hotel de Villar, etc.). From 1709 until 1740 he was also involved in interior design for various Parisian buildings and palaces - for example, the Luxembourg Small Palace, the Grand Arsenal and the Hotel de Subiz . In Lorraine, Beaufrand was entrusted with the reconstruction of the castle of Arue , and then the construction of the palaces of Luneville and La Mulgrange . J. Beaufrand also owns sketches for the Commerce Palace.
J. Beaufrand is also one of theorists of Baroque architecture. In 1743, his work La figure équestre de Louis XIV ... was published, and in 1745, Livre d'Architecture , in which he develops the ideas of aesthetics of architecture in French and Latin and outlines some of his structures.
Selected Works
- 1685 to 1699: Place Vendome in Paris, the first project of J. Beaufrand, led by Arduin-Mansard
- 1700: Hotel Lebrun in Paris, for the nephew and heir of Charles Lebrun
- 1704: Hotel d'Argenton, for the favorite of Philip II Charles de Bourbon , Duke of Orleans
- 1702 to 1715: Luneville Palace for the Duke of Lorraine Leopold
- 1705: Bouchefort hunting castle in Brussels for the Duke of Bavaria Maximilian II
- 1709 to 1713: Small Luxembourg in Paris, perestroika for Anna-Henrietta von Palatinate-Zimmern , widow of Henry III Jules de Bourbon , Prince Conde
- 1710: Hotel Amelo in Paris
- 1712: La Mulgrange Palace for the Duke of Leopold of Lorraine
- 1715 to 1725: Arsenal Library in Paris, for the Duke de Men
- 1713: Hotel de Torsi in Paris (now the palace of Beauharnais) for Jean-Baptiste Colbert (now - the building of the German Embassy in France)
- 1717 to 1722: Nancy's Ducal Palace
- 1724: Würzburg residence for Prince Bishop Johann Philipp Franz von Schonborn.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Structurae - Ratingen .
- ↑ Bofran // Greater Caucasus - Great Canal. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 2006. - S. 105-106. - (The Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 4). - ISBN 5-85270-333-8 .
Literature
- Wend von Kalnein: Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century . Yale University Press, New Haven und London 1995.
- Michel Gallet, Jörg Garms (ed.): Germain Boffrand 1667-1754. L'aventure d'un architecte indépendant . Ausstellungskatalog. Herscher, Paris 1986.