Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer
Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer ( born February 6, 1829 in Paris, † February 7, 1914 in Antibes ) was a French architect of historicism.
Life
Vaudremer studied architecture in 1847 at the École des Beaux -Arts and then worked with the architect Guillaume Abel Blouet ( 1795-1853 ) and Émile Jacques Gilbert ( 1795-1874 ). In 1854 he was awarded the Prix de Rome and held a fellowship from 1855 to 1858 at the Villa Medici in Rome. His students included the American architect Louis Sullivan.
Émile Vaudremer died in 1914 one day after the completion of his 85th year of life in Antibes. It rests on the local Cimetière Saint- Véran.
Work
He created his first major building built by 1861 to 1867 Paris prison La Santé. After this rather nüchtenem building up turned Vaudremer - according to the spirit of the times - a neo-Romanesque style to. First example is the resulting 1865-1870 Church of St- Pierre de Montrouge in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Also in the Romanesque Revival style, the church Notre -Dame- d'Auteuil originated in 1876 in the 16th arrondissement. Moreover, it was Vaudremer collaborator of Paul Abadie in the construction of the Basilique du Sacré- Cœur. Vaudremer left behind an extensive collection of drawings. These include designs for interior designs of the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral and the St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, as well as landscape views of Capri and Viterbo.