Zacharias Longuelune
Zacharias Longuelune (* 1669 in Paris, † November 30, 1748 in Dresden) was a French architect and architectural draftsman. His work is attributed to the classical Baroque.
Life
Zacharias Longuelune initially trained as a painter and then studied architecture at the Lepautre Antoine in Paris. In 1696 he entered the Prussian service, and worked as Baukondukteur Jean de Bodt in Berlin and Potsdam. 1710 Longuelune occurred arrangement Frederick I. a study trip to Italy, was dismissed by his successor Frederick William I in 1713 and moved in the same year to the Saxon court in Dresden. Elector Friedrich August I appointed him court architect and 1731, in addition to Matthew Daniel Poeppelmann, the chief master builder. On behalf of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland from 1697 August II, both architects worked from 1728 at the Royal Building Department at the Warsaw residence and presumably together on the design of the Saxon Palace, which belonged as part of the so-called Saxon axis. In addition, the design of a no longer extant salons also part of the axis Saxon garden in Warsaw it is attributed.
Work
Zacharias Longuelune is less well known as an independent architect, but rather by his architectural drawings, which are kept, among other things in the Saxon State Archives Dresden and the SLUB Dresden. He also remained as an employee known architect remembered as among other Poeppelmann and de Bodt, on whose buildings he was responsible for the design and supervision. Although few of his own designs were realized, he took effect on the skyline of Dresden, by introducing the façade with pilasters and pilasters in the spirit of the French classical Baroque. Through his later teaching, he gave this style to the subsequent Dresden architect generation. One of his students was Friedrich August Krubsacius.